Modern Inuit live in furnished houses year-round due to permafrost, rely on shops for expensive groceries but still hunt traditionally using modern equipment, wear store-bought clothes or traditionally sewn fur parkas and boots, and preserve their culture through continuing education in the Inuktitut language.

1. What does it mean to be a
modern Inuk?

2. Dwelling
• Winter – snow huts (igloos)
Summer – tents (skin)
• Moving according to the season

3. • Stay in one place all
the year
• Houses
• Permafrost
• Fully-furnished,
fully-equipped

4. Food and hunting
• Local shops – very expensive groceries
• Traditional food = hunting (modern
equipment, machinery)

8. Clothing
• Fur clothes sewn by women
(parka, boots, glooves)
• Traditional clothes made from
duffel, cotton
• Buy in store

9. Language and Education
Inuktitut

10. Will be the Inuit culture preserved in the future?