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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Inuit Indians
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Inuit Indians, trivia and information, including some useful statistics will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Interesting Facts about Inuit Indians are as follows:

Fact 1 - The Inuit tribe are the indigenous people of N America, Greenland and Canada, particualrly eastern Quebec and Labrador, as distinguished from those from Asia or the Aleutian Islands (who are still generally referred to as Eskimos)

Fact 2 - Inuit is their term for ‘people’, whereas ‘Eskimo’ is a derogatory word meaning ‘eater of raw flesh’ applied to them by Algonquian-speaking American Indians.
Fact 3 - The Inuit have traditionally been hunters and fishers. They hunted sea animals such as whales, walrus, caribou, seal, polar bears, muskoxen and birds. Men were in charge of hunting and the women were in charge of the home
Fact 4 - Homes and Houses: Wigwams (or wetus) are also known as birchbark houses were used by the
Fact 5 - Wigwams are small cone-shaped houses with an arched roof made of wooden frames that are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark which are held in place by ropes or strips of wood
Fact 6 - An Inuk is an Inuit person. The Inuit language is grouped under Eskimo-Aleut languages
Fact 7 - During the winter, certain Inuit lived in a temporary shelter made from snow called an igloo or iglu. An igloo was a dome shaped shelter built from snow. Iglu is the Inuit word for a house or home built out of any material includes traditional snowhouses, tents, sod houses and homes constructed of driftwood
Fact 8 - Clothes and Clothing - Clothes were generally made from the skins of animals which were sewn together from the thread made from the sinews of deer and needles made from bone.
Fact 9 - Coats called parkas were worn by both men and women
Fact 10 - Men work tunics and leggings and women wore dresses and leggings
Fact 11 - Most Innu people speak one of their two native languages - Montagnais and Naskapi.
Fact 12 - Shoes and footwear: Boots, called mukluk or kamiit, could be made of caribou or seal skin, the designs of which varied for men and women.
Fact 13 - Headdresses: The Inuit did not wear headdresses - they used the hoods attached to their parkas
Fact 14 - Women's Hair: Hair was kept long, sometimes braided
Fact 15 - Enemies of the tribe included the Iroquois
Fact 16 - Inuit made large open boats (umiaq) made of wood frames covered with animal skins, for transporting people, goods and dogs.
Fact 17 - The Inuit used dog sleds (qamutik) for transportation
Fact 18 - Inuit weapons: Weapons included bows and arrows, blowguns, tomahawks, spears and knives
Fact 19 - History: The Massacre at Bloody Falls took place July 17, 1771 during Samuel Hearne's exploration of the Coppermine River. Chipewyan Dene warriors led by Hearne's guide and companion Matonabbee discovered a group of local Copper Inuit camped by rapids and massacred approximately 20 men, women and children.