Canadian Eskimo life in the early 1940s. To purchase a DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivesfarms.com. To license footage from this film visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
Amazing footage. Sometimes I forget how long ago this actually happaned, to put things into perspective, I compare it with the age of my now deceased grandpa, he was 21 years old at the time. WoW, as I said, great footage, Love it. Fascinating culture being portrayed there.
I live up in the North(BC/Yukon)border and was working on the Rigs up in the High Arctic Tuktoyaktuk,Inuvik and Norman Wells areas and tell you guys the Inuit(Eskimo)ppl are the thoughest ppl on this Earth .They're unbelievable!!!
jozsefkacsa hi im from tuk thanks for your service in the oil rigs. i still here stories from guys around here back in the 70s with the high risk jobs they did
Such a resilient, intelligent culture.....amazing time in man's existence..... I'm sure this level of skill is already lost by these beautiful people...... such an amazing piece of preserved culture to have!!!
These people live a communal life. Everything is cared for, as it cannot be easily replaced. They cooperate, not compete. We would be wise to emulate them.
Chukchi people were always healthy, although our diet consisted mainly of meats and organs (whale,walrus,seal,caribou,small mammals,fish) we ate plenty of cranberries, tundra berries and blueberries in the summer. Yes, Siberia's tundra does have these berries and many more! we ate many vegetables that grow in the tundra and we ate Yupik mantak (whale blubber or meat with the skin)
The "Paleo Diet". The thesis being that we humans evolved to eat meat (and "meat by-products"), fruits, nuts and berries. We've only been farmers for the last ten thousand years (an eyeblink) and we were never meant to live on grains and legumes. That's the argument, anyway.
Not so, as it turns out, fresh meat (raw or slightly undercooked) is in fact loaded with Vitamin C. The nineteenth-century whaling captains who wintered over in the Arctic often sent their men to live in the Inuit villages and eat their food whenever they showed signs of scurvy. This was none-to-popular. In "Life With The Esquimaux" explorer Charles Francis Hall relates the story of one such sailor who got fed up with Inuit food and froze to death in a blizzard walking back to the ship.
We would like to be known as "INUIT" Eskimoes is a name given by Indians. We do live in modern houses now but we still use these traditions while out hunting. Our traditions are being passed on to the younger generations, but it is getting harder now as todays society demands money, and the younger generations are adapting to the white mans traditions to gather as much money as possible to survive the ridiculously high prices that the southerners are charging sky high rates to ship necessities north
Right. Take away your typical Detroiter's Section 8, food stamps, welfare, etc., and they wouldn't survive a week. If they had to fend for themselves in the arctic, they wouldn't survive a day.
ALREADY IT IS HISTORY. WE ARE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE OLD FILMS OF OUR HUMAN ANCESTOR'S LIFESTYLES FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD. LEARN WHERE YOU'VE BEEN, IT WILL HELP WHERE YOUR GOING. TAKE CARE GARE
yes we are. in fact, my tribe lvives in Siberia (Russia/Asia) which is right across the bering straight. we have many legends of our men capturing the Yupik women from St.Lawrence Island, Alaska. The Inuit and Yupik and Kallaalit(? dont know proper name)(Greenland Inuit) all came over from Siberia and Athabascans also came from our land. We share common ancestors with Native Americans and Inuit.
Incredible film, Thank you. so much to say but this is not the place. I cant help felling that was as good as it got for the amazing eskimo people. It seemed like a fair balance between the "modern" and the primary cultured. So desperately sad how the corporate hungry ghost took over. These people as many others had the deep connection to the soul of the world and all its beautiful and tough lessons and lived a deeper life. We still have much to learn from them. Many contempory cultures seem like lost hollow souls constantly devouring in order to fill a space that knows no end. But all things have a season so who knows.
Life is more exciting constantly having to succeed in hunting and fishing. Food is much healthier to eat compared to modern refined flour and white sugar.
True a man in our village was 120 years old and he still sang and danced, he'd come to our school drum for us and sing and show us dances, he'd walk a lot of the time and Carried water in 5 gallon containers.
@@one_up907 Your lucky living in a village as people sharing and caring is essential in our modernized world. Group gatherings about health and various concerns about nature is priceless. Here where I reside in Maine we people have families yet nearly everyone is segregated from each other by listening to governments and being brainwashed on TV with news showing modern corrupt pharmaceutical companies backed by medical doctors to give the false impression they care and prescribe artificial medicine when natural foods and medicinal plants pervaded before this modern era. Even people living in cities are isolated in like single family apartments as sharing is a odd commodity. The majority thrive on financial strength with weak characters. Money demonstrates counterfeit fronts to others with no explanation to its true value or intentions. This is why I love true aboriginal ways of life and traditions. Being innovative and creative noticing whale as well as all sea mammals along with oily fish insulate the body and protect us from the dangers of hypothermia coming on as fast. Also knowing all sea mammals having omega 3 oils in them is superior nutrition compared to modern inferior nutrition. They are light years apart. Not sure if you heard of this guy at all but the best evidence is a book written by Weston A Price evolved all around indigenous cultures eating native traditional foods had better teeth and immune to dental caries. Nutrition that is modernized ruins children’s teeth and facial appearance as well as changes your behaviors. Plus most people are not as strong or physically fit either. His written work: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is a game changer as Price traveled all over the world studying primitive indigenous people back in the 1920’s & 30’s. One chapter was devoted about the Inuits in Northern Canada and Alaska. So what is your heritage? I have Polish,Irish and Native American. In 2-4 weeks I’ll know what percentage of Native American I have with Ancestry DNA. According to my first cousin he said we are from the Paugussett Tribe and as I researched are a small small grouping. Just stick to your traditional foods as you’ll be much better off. I’d love to try whale some day and other sea mammals. Great health site too in case your unfamiliar: www.westonaprice.org
This people are testimony that human don't required to destroy the planet for survival. We can do it with bare minimum. Human needs can be fulfilled but not greed.
Ann Waine not tell we shut the school system down and teach only traditional ways. atleast for maybe 7 generations. then we will feel back to natural life. but its never gonna happen,
Re: Washing, I moved to an extreme desert climate, & there is no BO here. I think that type of bacteria just doesn't thrive here. Maybe it's the same in the arctic?
As I gather, the steambath is a great way to clean off when you don't have running water. Much better than having to heat up bathwater one kettlefull at a time. Although I guess you do need SOME hot water to wash your hair in (unless you use a bucket of concentrated wee-wee like the Greenland ladies used to).
What a pure kind people with nature most people would freeze to death in days the aboriginal lived here for hundreds of years. One can imagine the native Americans south might of developed if we're not molested by greed capitalists looking for gold like the black hills
"Eskimo" is what the native ppl(athabascan) would call the inuit,it means "eater of raw meat." We should call them "Inuit" it means "The ppl". No they didn't bathe.You try it at minus50.Everyone smelled the same so it's not noticeable.Ok no more preaching.
The liver of animals provided the vitamins. That is why the liver of seals was cut up and shared by all members of a group. before any other butchering happened.
They hang food outside and it's dangerous when a bear gets too close to the village especially when its hungry, also nothing on that bear will be wasted.
They should just let polar bears overrun the village and eat them all - as is the bear's natural instinct? It is good to have empathy, but common sense is also necessary.
I bet the people in this video were really healthy. It seems a hard way of life, but they had community and healthy fresh food, although I wonder if they suffered because they didn't have vegetables? Fascinating film.
Well, I've been exposed to an ever growing awareness of benefits of ketogenic eating and a diet of mostly animal products, and am trying to spread the word. There are several websites and project in spreading the word, but most people don't listen, because the dogma they grew up with is ingrained so deeply that it cannot be budged (vegetarians and vegans are the saddest case).
Are there any Inuit still living this way or do they all live in modern housing now? So much smartness and ingenuity with their old way way living and surviving the Artic. Hope it's been passed down to the younger generation.
And yet we in America have SAFE SPACES and COUNSELING at colleges, when someone has to listen to someone else speak, they do not agree with. You can see why this is humorous.
lol. Inuit culture acknowledges that the human spirit is complex and emotionally rich. When you were troubled you went to a mentor or village elder and you aired your thoughts. We have therapy now in the developed world because most of us work all week and never see our neighbors. We have no tribe or community to confide in, so we pay someone to listen and reflect back what they hear.
no there was a way of bathing (at least for our people) in the hot springs and they would also make lodges and have hot steambaths.... if you dont clean yourslef you'd be very sick and our people were always very healthy. and there's no huge difference in Yupik,Inuit and Chukchi lifestyle.
It is?Cool. Never knew. I don't know any inuit words or the language at all. Although it is distantly related to Chukchi... I cannot understand any Inuit and my Chukchi isn't fluent either.
As you watched the vid, I believe you noticed they ate the whole seal - liver, brain, eyes and all. Organ meats are pretty much the most nutrient dense foods (especially liver), thus, they get more vitamins than most people eating a diet that consists of lean muscle meats and vegetables. The only vitamin they may be getting very little is vitamin E and vitamin C, but there's not a large need for vit C; not sure about E. Hope that clears it up. If there are more questions, feel free to ask.
Quite likely so. You may still improve your health by, at the very least, cutting out the sugars and processed food and using animal fats in cooking instead of vegetable oils. The whole modern nutrition field was royally screwed over, mostly thanks to a couple of faulty researches, media hype and government statements and regulations in US (other countries jumped on the bandwagon). It's only about today that it's recovering from the damage.
Of course! What am I thinking? No processed food, no sugar (I presume) and none of the junk we put into our bodies today. Even my younger self in the 1950's, brought up on stodgy over-cooked post-war food, was healthier than most kids today.
Yeah I find it really sad. I actually got really sick more than once off of grocery store food and my whole digestion track swelled up and shut down. Also have been anemic more times than I can count. Its not normal. I was eating all the right stuff too, but it turned on me. I decided to base my diet on diets like these in the videos and now feel almost 100% better. No longer anemic, I now dont feel dizzy constantly. My chronic tooth pain and gum disease went away. Its not the sugary and obvious unhealthy food that I am afraid of, its the deceptive...so called healthy food (or what they say is healthy) that is the most damaging to people I think. Diets today are very acidic and void of nutrients. We live in a generation where kids and adults alike either eat nothing but sugar and junk food, or they eat ice cubes and water, and must take so many suppliments (or pills). I was so much healthier even in the 80s when our family had good wholesome meals everyday. Nothing fancy, but good gentle and solid meals.
That was lovely to see - a unique historic record. And it also shows how they had already been affected by being given primus stoves, guns etc and had had 300 years of he Hudson trading co.
There's a lot of controversy surrounding it. As a starter resource, I suggest you watch the movie Fat Head (look it up on youtube). Feel free to let me know if you're unclear on something and need more information. Glad to help.
Why not flour, suger, tea, coffee , salt, cloth, rope, knifes......tradeing posts can get you anything your willing to work hard for. WWII changed everything.
The way this is filmed looks so staged and fake.. I know there were Eskimos, but this looks more like hey walk this way and look that way.. Seriously. I dont fall for this. They hired some indians to dress like that and made a good fake. I seen eskimo videos before and it look nothing like that. Most vids from back then are fake.
