Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik tribe of Inuit on King William Island, polar explorer Roald Amundsen became an expert igloo builder, even though at ...

(Scene from Canada: A People's History, shot in Baker Lake) The Inuit oral history is particularly ... There is a fable of one old man who was left in an igloo with two dogs and little else ...

Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life threatened by climate change. Show more Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts ...

The answer is of course, an igloo! 'Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in the frozen lands of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland.

It was a pleasant day for Mike Shouldice recently, when he and his wife, Monica, visited the large iglu (qaggiq) in Rankin Inlet, sponsored by the Pulaarvik Kablu Friendship Centre. Shouldice said ...

This paper is an exploration of what a 'human rights approach' to climate change can offer Inuit communities. It analyzes the potential contribution of the discourse of human right to housing, which ...

Inuit usually built their winter villages on ... a layer of snow formed in a single drift Almost any snow will work for an experienced igloo builder in a pinch, but the best kind is a deep layer ...