ESKIMOS OR INUIT,AND YUPIK ARE INDIGENOUS ORIGINALLY FROM RUSSIA. THEY CROSSED THE BERING STRAIT TO ALASKA AND CANADA. THERE ARE THREE GROUPS - THE INUIT, YUPIK, AND ALEUT. THE YUPIK LANGUAGE DEVELOPED DIALECTS AND CULTURES IN ALASKA AND EASTERN SIBERIA HAVE EVOLVED SINCE THE ORIGINAL ESKIMO CULTURE. ABOUT 4000 YEARS AGO THE UNAGAM BECAME DISTINCTLY SEPARATE AND EVOLVED INTO NON ESKIMO.
THE EARLIEST ESKIMO CULTURES WERE PRE DORSET TECHNOLOGY THAT DATES TO 5000 YEARS AGO. TODAY THE ESKIMO HAS BEEN REPLACED BY INUIT. THE YUPIK AND INUIT ARE NOW CALLED INUIT AND THERE ARE 150,000 PEOPLE. THEIR TRADITIONAL DIET IS FISH, SEA MAMMALS, LAND ANIMALS, AND THEY USE THEM FOR FOOD, HEAT, LIGHT, CLOTHING AND TOOLS. THEIR CULTURE IS UNIQUE.
YUPIK CULTURE ARE ABORIGINALS WHO LIVE ALONG THE COAST OF WESTERN ALASKA, ESPECIALLY ON THE YUKON. THEIR ECONOMY HAS BEEN STRONG IN THE HARVEST OF MARINE ANIMALS - SEALS, WALRUS AND WHALES. ALUETIANS ARE CALLED PACIFIC YUPIK. THEY LIVED ON COASTAL LANDS AND HARVESTED SALMON, HALIBUT, AND WHALES, AND RICH LAND RESOURCES SUCH AS BERRIES AND LAND MAMMALS. THEY LIVE IN FISHING COMMUNITIES. THEY HAVE 3000 FOLKS WITH ONLY SEVERAL HUNDRED SPEAKNG THE LANGUAGE.
ALL OF THE ESKIMOS USED TI LIVE IN IGLOOS BUT NOT TODAY. THE IGLOOS WERE MADE FROM WHALE BONE AND HIDES WITH SNOW BLOCKS FOR INSULATION. IT GETS -45 DEGREES F THERE.
SOMETIMES THEY BUILT SMALL IGLOOS WITH SNOW ON THE OPEN SEA ICE FOR FISHING. SOME OF THE LARGEST IGLOOS COULD HOLD UP TO 20 PEOPLE. IT IS A DOME SHAPED HOUSE. HEAT IS GENERATED BY A STOVE, LAMP OR BODY HEAT.
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