Oldest Inuit Footage Ever 

Maybe you could be at the beginning of a new decolonised journey

@@eyesf7693 not even sure what that means? What I’m saying is my longing is to belong. I feel like this is who I belong to, but it’s gone. I’m 64 now, my mom is 86 and I have no family, no tribe. Anyway, thanks for responding

@@amypetra5021 i am 66 and have no fam or belonging.

@@DS-nv8bi I’m sorry 😞. Sad thing feeling alone

Bless you all, from Bolivia.

Now you understand THAT we didn't evolve from Neanderthals...made up names ....Created by the Living God....And the Invaluable Knowledge needed to Sustain us throughout the millenniums.....!!!!

And those are real smiles and laughs, not posing American fake smiles.

you will see that in most so called third world peoples.

Very hard working folk yet very joyful.

I dont think thats a puppy . I think its a polar bear cub.

@@teresaoconnell4790 😅😅😅Puppy. The puppies learn to pull as young as the kids learn to push a sled. It's ok, they both like doing what they're doing.

Comfortably? Not always.

Sophisticated? They were wild and primitive. More animal than human.

Must be proud of your ancestors!! 👍🏼

Yes, for sure. TB was terrible and my mom’s parents caught it. That’s another reason why she went to the boarding school. Her sister remembers some. Idk why, but they alienated my mom. But I do feel things in my spirit. I really admire the Inuit people. They are intelligent, creative, optimistic, artistic and have an inner strength that seems almost never ending. It makes me proud to think that this is in me too, even though its not directly. I grew up in a world apart in Chicago

@@amypetra5021 👍🏼

Very beautiful stories, I am native too, Native American and proud of it. Admired your points on your ancestors, u rooted an thanks for sharing ♡♡

@@victoriabenally8319 Not my ancestors but my wife's.

Not always. There was a lot of starvation too. Many whole families starved, or even clans, for example when the cariboo didn't come, or went a different way. But I certainly know what you mean. They were extremely intelligent, and never wasted a thing. They appreciated everything they did have so very much, especially each other. I've read as much as I can about the Inuit, and have extreme respect for how they survived in such hostile conditions! I'm not Inuit, but if I were I would just be so very proud. Every bit of film I see about them moves me so deeply.

I lived in high arctic communities for over ten years, this video shows a life long gone. Life in arctic communities now bears no resemblance at all to this footage which might seem idyllic but certainly was very far from that, it was a harsh existence back then, starvation and the continuous hunt for food was the overriding focus of every day, summer and winter. Now they have houses with all the modern conveniences from microwaves, dishwashers to tv and internet, schools, nursing stations, and stores with every kind of food, clothing and household goods.

@@cattymajivin Ireland and plenty of European countries starvation was also an issue.

amen, we have lost our way, we are not meant to work 8 hours a day 365 days a year and live a mostly sedentary life.

​@@hazelpearson7807probably why they are all killing themselves. It's like a huge problem with natives in Greenland I know.

Believe what you will.

ikr! They're so happy!

Which is amazing considering what a harsh environment they existed in.

And then they were gone

@@khillsy4489 They are very much NOT gone. There are a great many of them in Siberia, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. There are probably millions of Inuit. One of their biggest problems now is that they are so often forgotten about in government budgets and programs, and in the minds of the people of their modern countries. And living so far north still imposes most of the same burdens, just in different ways. Still nothing grows there, but now the wildlife of all kinds is under threat. The whales they relied on are almost gone. There are quotas on how much they can hunt and fish. Even though all the equipment is better, affording that equipment is almost impossible for them. Jobs are very scarce. And the traditional means of survival are becoming forgotten and lost. That has an enormous impact on their ability to get food and on their culture. But to buy food and other supplies that are shipped north on planes is so expensive. So is electricity and heating. Every single thing has to be flown up, since it's too far and too cold to send much by ship. It's bad enough for the Inuit in Canada and Greenland, but I'm sure that for the ones who live in Alaska and Siberia it's even worse, due to the attitudes and lack of understanding of the rest of their country. Lack of education about them obviously makes it even worse.

Hello from Georgia!!❤

They were. The idea would have originated in Siberia, as well as the umiak, a bigger boat, which they would have used in their immigration from Siberia originally. The ways in which their lives were improved by metal implements and tools were great. There is no doubt. But the ways that contact with whites hurt them was far greater. They were absolutely devasted. As were every other culture that the whites had any contact with. Treated in an abominable manner, and given terrible diseases that wiped most of them out. Those who remained were treated worse than dogs. 400 years later they are still not treated as equals in many ways.

The Hudson Bay Company was initiated by two French traders who needed English backing to establish a posts on Hudson Bay. We're talking ca. 1664. The rest is history.

@@holyworrier Hudson's Bay Co. founded in 1607 through a land grant from the British Crown.

@@ZeldaZorch205 - Thank you. My mistake. I'm misinformed.

Inuit people. Basically you wrote people people. Because the word inuit means people. Next time just use one single word, inuit. Not Inuit People. Greeting from Greenland.

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Hmmmm... evolution also imposed its will on cultures and religions, language and lifestyle.. hmmmm.. I guess nothing stays the same..😔.

They are laughing at how funny their strange visitors look

We've seen some, there's still tons of archival things we have to write specifically for, as in must know the title, date and everything before we can even obtain anything. We appreciate whatever is obtainable or is shared, we still hear stories from our grandparents and great grandparents what it was like pre-settlement. Pure joy everytime

Back in the 80's a saw a Russian film about a group of Ainu living on the Sakhalin (sp?) islands between Russia and Japan. They wore fur clothing, lived in communal houses, and used sled dogs! It was really interesting. I can't remember the title, and haven't been able to find it since, sadly.

I'm curious about the "hongi", the nose-to-nose greeting which looks identical to the Maori form of greeting. It makes sense in such a harsh environment to greet one another in this manner.

My sister-in-law from Vancouver travelled up north 53 years ago and never returned to life down here. She married an Eskimo and had half a dozen lovely children. They don't like it down here either. The car culture makes it too noisy and too stinky for them.

@@anncoffey8375 cool thanks for telling me

@@anncoffey8375 I think cities and city life is dangerous to life in general. To Spirit Life, Human Life, Animal Life. It sucks out my soul.

@@davidhaynes3126 Totally agree. There is nothing life-enhancing about living in a city. Constant noise, no stillness. Traffic-jammed streets filling the air with hazardous substances from vehicle exhausts and wearing-down tyres. People shopping until they drop for things they don't need. Photochemical smog and road salt killing the few remaining trees. And urban planners planning for more ugliness because they plan for cars and not for people, and not planning for people means that they are not planning for nature. Cities are generally soul-destroying environments and the sprawl belts ringing them are even worse than the older city centres. James Kunstler calls the sprawling suburbs "the greatest misallocation of resources in the whole of human history". He is right. They are but temporary rubbish made of glue and woodchips coated with plastic siding and roofed with petrochemical products.

Farley Mowatt's book is a classic! Almost all of his books are. I've also read at least 2 other books by white people who lived in igloos, and in the primitive style, with Inuit who were not adapted to the modern ways, in villages and in vast stetches of land where no-one had the modern conveniences, and where there were very few people. It was so fascinating. One the authors had a name identical to a movie director of the same era, but I forget what it was. John Hughes? He was the guy who first suggested that they sell their carvings to the Hudson's Bat Company. I think he was was working for the HBC at the time. He also started them on doing the fabulous prints that they became so famous for. I might even still have the book by him. I forgotten that name too. If I find it I will devour it again as fast as I can. I love their culture! Apparently his 2 sons were both raised in igloos and tents until school age, and were heartbroken when they were told that they were not Inuit. One became a film maker and made at least a few films about the Inuit. Again, I don't know the names of him or his films.

Anything by Farley Mowat would be wonderful.

Your own country is about to perish. Adh mor ort

Yep, woomera and atlatl, the same thing. We can be sure they were in use for longer than 100 thousand years. The bow and arrows are much younger inventions.

They were also in use in Britain in the stone age. And Europe, I think. Everyone had them.

Not surprising that similar technologies would be invented by different cultures. If you have read Jared Diamonds book Guns, Germans Steel, he talks about how agriculture rose independently in Papua New Guinea as well as the Middle East.

That is really funny, I thought it was Germs, only recently been in contact with a Papuan fellow and recommended that he read Jared's books, as he had nice things to say about the intelligence of Papuan highlander farmers. Do the Carpathians have a grudge with Germans, or was that a Freudian slip. @@carpathiangirl8460

all pacific asian ish mind u

We know. It's in the title.

@@arthurmcbride1235 you might want to read the comments there are those that haven’t read with understanding the title. I lived in the high arctic in the 70’s even then it wasn’t like this vintage video.

@@hazelpearson7807 Sorry I only read your comment. I didnt know you were talking to other people.

(Oldest Inuit Footage Ever) it says.

Yes, today they use four wheelers, snowmobiles and motor boats as well as modern firearms. And they bathe their children instead of licking them clean.

Their sense of community was indeed wonderful, and mostly still is, and they are wonderfully cheerful and creative people, but it was also extremely hard, living in depressing conditions of constant darkness and extreme cold. The men had to go out in those conditions to hunt, and froze their butts doing it, even in the genius designed clothing. The women were stuck inside forever, in a tiny, dirty, hut or igloo sewing and caring for kids. They had to eat raw meat almost all the time. They couldn't often chose who or when to marry, and all had to live together, literally sitting and sleeping on top of each other, no matter whether they liked each other or not. They could almost never bathe. They did the best that anyone could have in terrible circumstances, and they had a great attitude about it! Until the whites arrived and began a long, long period of cultural genocide against them. Since that occurred, the rates of alcoholism and suicide are astoudingly high! So you would not enjoy it.

What are you waiting for going there ?🤪

I think they would look at you like you're crazy.

Not me, I like toothpaste

@@wannabe4668 It's the wind for me. I think I would lose my mind. I have friends in Finland, and their winters are pretty brutal and long could possibly live there, but it's still too cold. But they have what's called sisu. I'm sure the Inuit have a similar word/concept. Stoic determination, tenacity of purpose, grit, bravery, resilience, but it doesn't translate into English.

Thank you I learned a new word ! Quietude 🙏🏻

The arctic life is hard. In 1827, a danish soldier described cannibalism in east Greenland. Were young hunters killed elders inuit.

@@daveshen0880 : Really? I’ve never heard of cannibalism in that culture before. Given the abundance of wild game such as caribou I’m surprised they would kill and eat one of their elders.

@@djquinn11 first: there are no caribous in Eastern Greenland. If hunting failed for a longer time the old people might kill themselves by jumping from cliffs or walking out on the ice - so there at least was a little more food for the young people and children. Life was not always just smiles ...

@@daveshen0880 A Danish soldier in 1827? That's a lie that could be debunked on just that info alone. You should be ashamed of yourself. Tell us what exactly what your source is. Who wrote that? Where did they write it and when? There has been discussion in some of the the books and journals of whether or not it occurred because it's well known that bad migration patterns and unusually long and cold winters did cause starvation and death. But there has never been any proof it happened. There is tons of proof of starvation, but none of cannibalism. It was against their religion. Spirits were a huge part of their world, and they thought they would suffer eternal torment by spirits if they did such a thing. There have been hundreds of claims made by white men that cannibalism occurred world wide. 99% of them are false. One guy lies or misinterprets something and that gets passed down the line, and changed by almost every person who tells it. Even if you believe it, it's still not likely to have happened. In the "Age Of Exploration" the word cannibal was used as a synonym for "savage." Both were untrue when applied to any aboriginal culture. But that's why practically all of those ancient cultures were deemed to be cannibals, and some ignorant people are still very quick to use that word for people they don't understand.

@@djquinn11 He's either lying himself or passing on a lie, both very mean and irresponsible. The Inuit "religion" forbade it. They were ruled by taboos, so they would suffer torment by spirits for doing it. I'm not officially an expert, but I have read a lot about them, including discussions of how they handled the not infrequent starvation, which was their greatest fear. There has never been proof of any cannibalism. I suppose there could have been isolated cases during extreme weather patterns or failures of migrations of birds, seals, whales, etc when they were really starving. Despite the taboos, there probably were people who were more interested in living than conforming to those taboos. And we don't know if killing an elder to eat them would have been seen by them as being the same as eating a person who had died naturally by starving. But we do know that so far there is no proof it occurred. No bones have ever been found with the distinctive cut marks. That guy just made it up, or is spreading someone else's lies.

They most definately did know war.

They slaughtered anyone that they found in their territory.

@@rowbearly6128 Lies. They did know small scale disagreements, but rarely. And they were very friendly to strangers, which was used against them by those strangers. All of the research shows they were very peace loving, and didn't fight unless they had to. Why do you bother to troll like that? A person would have to be pretty twisted to enjoy making up lies about other people.

Lots of war. You cant let just anyone hunt your area and cant let just anyone live close.

@@deborahdean8867 Not lots of war. These people are Inuit. I've read everything that was available, up until about 5 years ago, to laypersons about them. The available info hasn't changed that much, and the circumstances back then certainly hasn't changed. They lived in small groups on the very vast landscape. Mostly along the coastline, in Canada, Alaska, and Greenland, and along the rivers near the coast. They needed the Arctic Char, or large fish from the rivers, and the seals, walrus, and whales from the ocean. So there were less people by far as you went up river and farther inland. On the very edges of the Inuit lands, where it met with forest, there were occasional skirmishes with the Dene. But they relied so much on cooperation for survival, and there were virtually no population pressures as there was in more southerly areas. They saw so few other people that every person they might ever encounter was seen as a potential ally, not an enemy. The idea of wars among them with anyone is simply preposterous. Even smaller battles among 2 families would be very unlikely, though it must have occurred occasionally. But any kind of war just didn't happen. Not over animals or women or anything else. There weren't enough people to have a war, and they were too focused on survival to fight much at all. Every effort was made to keep the peace among them, and with the Dene. People should read up on things before they comment. Making assumptions about things doesn't help anyone.

And they love to laugh alot.

Very sad, indeed.

There is no inupiat people. Basically you just said "people people" Because inupiat means people.

@daveshen0880 You understand how you were taught, I'm free to believe my grandmother's teachings thank you fr your opinion. The only translation to Eglish is: "Real People", maybe you can accept that term. I'm NOT debating OR asking for debate. It is what she taught me about being Nomadic and not taking more than you need. We were once a self sufficient tribe, then our children were taken away in great numbers to be Colonized as American Citizens. I suppose you know the Hopi are also from our tribe? I've visited them and their Elders, it is recorded in their history as well.

You seem to be preoccupied with bodily functions.

@todd danielson Yes he is. The details of how they survived have always fascinated me too, because the conditions were so extreme! In colder winters and bad migration patterns many of them died, despite their genius at survival. I've read everything I can get my hands on about them, but there has not been very much written by or about them, compared to other cultural groups. And especially by them, as even now survival isn't easy. Although in some ways it's much better than before, in other ways it's not at all. Hundreds of years of subjugation has taken a big toll on those wonderful cheerful people. There are more suicides there than down south by a huge amount. It's so sad. But they are educating themselves and standing up for their rights. It's too bad so much of the info about how they used to live has been lost, because they didn't use written language until relatively recently. There are only a few books and other things that were written by whites that lived with them. I can't remember the names of them either. But what is available on Amazon etc is fascinating!

I love to learn about the Russians that live nomadically in the far north today. They have similar lifestyles, and those questions are answered in some of the RU-vid videos about them.

Ich kann Ihnen leider nur auf deutsch antworten. Es gab einen zwei teiligen russ. Roman der speziell das Leben der sib. Inuit beschreibt. Ein guter Inuit verlässt seine Sippe und geht mit seiner jungen Frau in die Berge um ein selbst gewähltes Leben zu führen. Der Titel des Roman war : ,, Alitet geht in die Berge ''.

Sure if you want to eat raw whale meat, give up electricity, running water, toilet paper toothpaste. Go for it

Thank you

So you're saying they were "uncivilised". What an ignorant clown.

Perhaps you inuk blood? Because the word inuit is plural. Inuk is for singular word. Inuit is plural word.

When I lived in Northern Illinois in the 70's, I had a recreational team of 3 sled dogs ( I only weighed 90 pounds) and once built and slept in an igloo, which was amazing. I brought the dogs inside for warmth! Most of my friends who were into pop music, fashions and TV shows and thought I was weird, but I was happy being weird. I was into poetry, folk music, and anything to do with the Arctic.

Until the Christian’s went up there and ruined their lives

They don’t slowly decline, babe. They were systematically robbed of their culture, forced to move to destitute reservations, or sometimes killed.