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The Inuktitut Language

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Inuit are people indigenous to the Arctic that live in communities along the Arctic coast. Inuktitut is one of the Canadian indigenous languages spoken, with over 90% of Inuit children still learning Inuktitut from birth (Allen, 2007). This is promising for the future of this language, despite the barrage of media influences that are primarily aired throughout Canada in English and French. Around 30,000 people speak Inuktitut as their first language and mostly reside in the northern regions. The basic structure of Inuktitut is dramatically different to that of the English language. Also, over 60% of subjects and objects are omitted in spontaneous Inuktitut speech, arising to further difficulties in comprehension (Allen, 2007). As many Inuit …show more content…

These improved measurements applied to 9-year-old to 12-year-olds, may be a more accurate predictor of important adult outcomes (Tackett et al., 2012). This exploratory study, using a 25-item questionnaire may potentially be developed into a more thorough and substantial study of personality factors in Inuit through the Inuktitut language. As the results from this short item test derived from the IPIP would not only lack the essential analysis of the multi facets of the Big Five that a comprehensive analysis better shows, but also an essential emic approach that should now be seen as a necessary component when looking at indigenous cultures this initial research may not be useful as a proper investigative tool into indigenous personality …show more content…

Its ability to meet standard psychometric properties and cover both normal and diagnostic personality assessments will meet the demands of clinicians, but the combined emic-etic approach that encompasses both the universality of the FFM but does not ignore the distinctive dimensions that are present within different cultures will undeniably meet the requirements of those psychologists that understand the importance of a holistic yet thorough approach. Cheung et al., (2011) state the importance of cross-cultural psychology in discovering psychological variations that are not present in other cultures. While the 25-item FFM IPIP structure has been shown to be successfully translated into many languages and retain validity, it fails to truly appreciate the uniqueness of certain

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Ponnada 1 Sahithi Ponnada Mr. Kozlowski ENG1D1-11 Dec 10, 2022 Tansi Kesihtwahk: The Portrayal of Culture through Symbolism The British author Jay Griffiths states, “If people can’t acknowledge the wisdom of Indigenous cultures, then that’s their loss” (The Scotsman 2013). Indigenous culture in Canada is one of the most distinct cultures in the world. It has unique social, political and economic institutions as well as distinctive language, heritage, practices and beliefs.

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Lastly, the travel of the Inuit is different between the other two tribes. The Inuit travel by snowmobile because since it is so cold in the arctic and it is usually always covered in snow, the easiest way to get around is by snowmobile. In conclusion those are the differences from the

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Siku has an Inuit mother and Viking father, but he still sticks with the Tunit. Lastly, Kannujaq helped the Tunit even though he is Inuit. Firstly, shortly after the conflict between the Vikings and Tunit had ended, Siaq said that she wanted to stay with the Tunit instead of the Inuit. This is shocking information at first glance on account of the Tunit leader, Angula, who enslaved her.

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The Inuit. New York: Children 's Press, 2001. Print . “Wikipedia.” Wikipedia.

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Another way Tagaq has altered the Inuit throat singing tradition is by “she also chooses a turntablist over a singing partner, writhing to the beat as she uses her breath to deliver complicated rhythms” which goes along with her choice of making the musical style a solo as she is removing a partner for a turntable beat and rhythm instead (Perry 23). Although this is considered an Inuit throat singing style by many, some members of the first nation Inuit believe she is bad for their tradition. Some elders of the Inuit tribe have voiced their concern over what Tagaq does, saying “they’d like to preserve the most traditional elements of Inuit throat singing” by suggesting that “throat singers should only sing songs they are taught in the way they are taught

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Niska represents the Cree as helping, caring and “generous people” (TDR, 54). She is very loyal and proud of her Indian heritage. Yet, she describes herself through the whites’ perspective as a “thin and wild old woman (…) an Indian animal straight out of the bush” (TDR, 3). She only knows how to live by herself, and has chosen an isolated life because of her “habits” (TDR, 339) and “stubbornness” (TDR, 339). Though, Niska does not belong in Moose Factory and lives alone for a reason she has the same gift as her father: “This is not a place for you, Little One.

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Brody explains and describes how the Inuit, like many other tribes, have survived the margins of the vast, fertile lands occupied by the farming people and their descendants, now the great majority of the world’s population making them the minority in their lands. However, Brody goes on to describe and explain the way of life the Inuit people carried. In my opinion and from what I understood in Brody’s text, the most sharply characteristics that distinguished the Inuit people are, “ Families don't desire more than two small children at a time” (Brody 1010). Or how, “ ..animals have to be given water when they are killed to ensure that some of their numbers are willing to die when they (Inuit) need food” (Brody 99), and one that stood out to me the most, “ .. Parents never chided or disciplined their children (Brody 102).

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The Ipiutak culture only lasted around 800 years, but among that time they made major impacts and offered great insight on how to survive in the arctic. Too fully understand how the Ipiutak people survived in the harsh arctic environment of northwestern Alaska one needs to fully understand Alaska and its climate and ecosystems, as this will give better insight into their everyday challenges, and why the Ipiutak lived like they did.

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In conclusion to all of these paragraphs that I wrote and erased and wrote again, you should have learned about the similarities and differences between the Inuits and the Iroquois. The life lesson that I learned while researching, was that, YOU CAN’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER! Seriously, YOU CAN’T! So don’t, because you don’t know until you

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Jim Learning, 78, takes off his black baseball cap to reveal his long white hair. His complexion is fair and his small hazel eyes are framed by his thick white eyebrows. The elder has a silver-white mustache and a wizened face full of wrinkles. One would never think that Learning is a Canadian aboriginal, but he is. Learning’s mother was Inuit and his father was French, so he describes himself as “Euro-Inuit.”

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The concept of personality has fascinated psychologists for years. Allport proposed the hierarchy of traits – cardinal, central, and secondary traits (Allport, 1945). Cattell also proposed his theory, the sixteen dimensions of human personality (Cattell, 1944). Jung developed a type-based theory of personality, with different dichotomous personality categories, which was further developed by Myers and Briggs in 1962 to produce the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Ford, 2013). Some psychologists have even argued that personality does not exist; that people change behaviour over time and across various situations.

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