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Jacket

In the Arctic, they have a warm jacket with a nice hood so if you fall against the freezing cold ice, it protects you from the icy cold wind. Parka is another word for jacket in the Inuit world. They are sometimes made of moose fur. It is very warm. If you have a normal kind of jacket, you would freeze to death. In the summer you don't need a jacket. You would be really hot in the summer time.

Junk

There is so much junk in the Arctic! Some people don't care about the land so it is not clean. In the olden days, they didn't have any trash. They would use leaves and other things in the snow and when the snow melts, the leaves and the other things will go back in the earth. Now they have plastic, so when they throw it out the window, it will still stay there. It will not go in the earth.

Jobs

In the past, Inuit children spent all their time with the parents and relatives. As families moved from place to place, parents taught their children the skills they needed to hunt, fish, and trap. Children played an important role. They helped to feed the family. Families were usually large. Even twenty years ago, it was common to have between ten and twenty children. Not only were families large, but uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents all lived together. Although family life has now changed in some ways, families still remain close. Marriages are no longer arranged by the parents of the bride and groom. Couples are having fewer children, but family ties are as strong as ever!