page_title: Inuit culture
section_title: Western Arctic
hierarchical_section_title: Inuit culture / Overview of cultural history / Period V (1000 CE-present) / Western Arctic
caption_attribution_description: English: Inuk demonstrating Thule site Deutsch: Ein Inuk erklärt Thule-Siedlungsrelikte (Chesterfield Inlet)
context_page_description: The Inuit, or Eskimo, are aboriginal people who make their homes in the Arctic and subarctic regions of Siberia and North America. Inuit describes the various groups of indigenous peoples who live throughout Inuit Nunangat, that is the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut of Northern Canada, Nunavik in Quebec and Nunatsiavut in Labrador, as well as in Greenland. The term culture of the Inuit, therefore, refers primarily to these areas; however, parallels to other Eskimo groups can also be drawn.
  The traditional lifestyle of the Inuit is adapted to extreme climatic conditions; their essential skills for survival are hunting and trapping, as well as the construction of fur clothing for survival. Agriculture was never possible in the millions of square kilometres of tundra and icy coasts from Siberia to Northern America including Greenland. Therefore, hunting became the core of the culture and cultural history of the Inuit. They used harpoons, bows and arrows, and to take down animals of all sizes.
context_section_description: Koniaq
  Old Bering Sea
  Okvik
  Birnirk
  Punuk
  Thule—Bering Sea Thule
  "Western Thule" of North Alaska
  Canadian Thule
  Inugsuk Thule of Greenland
  Thule culture (1000-1800 CE)
  The relatively temperate climate of the Alaska had allowed much greater cultural advances among the peoples there during the 3,000 years since the Pre-Dorset had left the region.
caption: An Inuk explains Thule settlement artefacts at Chesterfield Inlet
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