Crossword Dictionary
The Inuit people live in the far northern areas of Alaska, Canada, Siberia, and Greenland. They originally made their home along the Alaskan coast, but migrated to other areas. Everything about the lives of the Inuit is influenced by the cold tundra climate in which they live.
The typical materials for making homes such as wood and mud are hard to find in the frozen tundra of the Arctic. The Inuit learned to make warm homes out of snow and ice for the winter. During the summer they would make homes from animal skin stretched over a frame made from driftwood or whalebones. The Inuit word for home is "igloo".
The Inuit needed thick and warm clothing to survive the cold weather. They used animal skins and furs to stay warm. They made shirts, pants, boots, hats, and big jackets called anoraks from caribou and seal skin. They would line their clothes with furs from animals like polar bears, rabbits, and foxes.
Inuit
noun
The language of the Inuit, a member of the Eskimo-Aleut family comprising a variety of dialects.
synonyms
Eskimo
examples:
‘She modeled her lightweight, 11-inch-tall, moose-hide Klondike after the footwear their Inuit friends wore.’
‘Many Inuit parents see arguing with children as silly and a waste of time, interpreter Elizabeth Tegumiar explained further.’
‘While staying with an Inuit family in a village above the Arctic Circle, I never once saw an adult argue with a child.’
‘Part memoir, part Inuit folklore, it’s been called “magic realism,†and that’s probably not an accurate label either, but it’s as close as one can get to a traditional name for this narrative of a girl growing up in Nunavut.’
Aleut
noun
Also Aleutian. a member of a people native to the Aleutian Islands and the western Alaska Peninsula who are related to the Inuit and Yupik.
synonyms
Aleutian, Eskimo, Inuit
examples:
‘The commenter said Dodson is not a full-blooded member of any tribe and is in fact one-quarter Aleut, not Inuit.’
‘If it is warm weather, the Aleut will turn his skin skiff upside down, crawl into the hole head first and sleep there.’
‘Gaff or paddle in hand, the Aleut leaps from rock to rock, or dashes among the tumbling beds of tossed kelp.’
‘Let the wind roar above and the ice bang the shore rocks, the Aleut swathed in furs sleeps sound close to earth.’