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It would be great to see how hides are cleaned and tanned/smoked from a perspective of a person who wants to learn how. The same goes for any food preservation skills that can still be practiced today. I live up North in Canada and so many of the old ways of the local First Nations have been lost. Making clothes would also be great. Thank you.
Yes, it is lovely to hear the admiration he has for his father. Nowadays, so many many young white men speak begrudgingly or belittlingly of their fathers, yet cannot give a rational reason why they are so resentful except for what they learn in school about how white men are the cause of all wars and social problems and wrecked the planet. I wish more men of my generation and younger love and admire their father like I do, and like the man in this documentary does.
This documentary serie on Inuit civilization is more than precious. It visually documents life that still existed less than a century ago and back to 20,000 years ago or more in the great glaciations with actual video of it ! Our long ago distant ice age ancestors had to be as clever as this to survive which is no less than today and more.
this is soo beautiful, the way he used his teeth to straighten the wood shaft is also common here in Africa, the people are soo in tuned with nature ,i hve really enjoyed this video . May our ancestors keep on living forever in us who carry their spirits in our DNA.
What a lovely series, so kind, gentle, informative.It was good they preserved it at the time so we have the record before people die and memories fade.
This is something they would probably played when i still attended high school and I’d probably fall asleep in class while it played. Now I find these so interesting 😊
When my uncle and I were dog mushing in Wasilla Alaska we got a dog from Kotzebue. That dog on the coolest of nights would never even sleep in his dog house lol.
Tradition still not lost proud to be inuk Rn. But it’s different hunting now there’s boats Honda’s guns skidoo’s trails a town technology and all!! I am inuk
@@logan-mercer6045 yea at best 50/50 Inuit/modern culture. Bow&arrow+dog teams isn’t a reliable way to live when there are rifles and vehicles. I’m qalipu First Nations here in Newfoundland, where i live in St. John’s which is of course a modern city but I have lived with many native lifestyles during my life although most were removed by the Roman Catholic Church.
Its amazing how happy these people are in an environment most of us would very easily be overcome by. Most of the children you see in these videos would easily outlast the heartiest of modern men.
As a traditional bowyer, it's cool to see how these people do it with minimal tools, I reckon this is the closet we have to seeing what ice age hunters were like
The Inuit are an amazingly advanced and innovative people, we owe them so much even our high tech society owes much to them. In the 19th century, Europeans were using a primitive harpoon known as the One flue harpoon and they actually adopted the Inuit toggling harpoon because it was a superior design and still to this day whaling harpoons trace their design back to those used by the Inuit, unfortunately, we abused the technology through with our incessant slaughter of whales :( Other innovative technologies include the famous Parker, the Kayak of course, the toboggan, the worlds first sunglasses, this amazingly complex bow design and the dog sled.
Inuit harpoon is indeed better but I would not call it high tech. And the snow goggles are slits in wood whereas sunglasses are really a totally different thing. The kayak is something I would call genius.
I am always amazed at their use of the third hand, throughout this series I see it all the time they use the mouth and teeth to hold, process or otherwise act as a third hand.
@@-Oclock well no they talk about several animals that are hunted with the bow and generally you wouldn't fletch an arrow if you didn't care about your aim, clearly they are very accurate with the bow, the OP isn't saying they aren't accurate because they don't use an anchor point just that it's interesting.
My grandfather was stationed in the aleutian islands during ww2. He killed a polar bear that was chasing an eskimo native. The man made a bear skin rug from the bear and gave him dolls and other pieces of native art. It was probably worth thousands all together but it was all lost during hurricane Katrina.
They did mention famine actually. The series shows the gentle side and I suspect may have been made for children originally so they choose not to show hunger and death
Jane, Every Culture has experienced Hunger, deprivation, and throughout History, Starvation!! Can we, now living fat and happy, recognize these People for what they were able to accomplish?
True! Now, we are driven by something inside of us to connect with our primal selves, even though it isn't necessary to survive. As modern humans, we go hiking (even though it's no longer necessary), we catch and release fish (even though it's more efficient to just buy commercially caught fish), we build fires in our fireplaces just to stare at (even though our homes have heating), and we learn to sew and craft (even though everything is on Amazon). Even though we have the easiest lives in history, there is something deep inside of us that drives us to practice our primal skills, even though we don't need them to survive.
I love your replies to people. In contrast to many on RUclips, you do not take offense, and you answer the questions in a warm and very informative way. So wise :)
Al;though even in the 1970s in England my sister and I were out in the woods looking for yew trees to make bows and arrows (yew was the wood of choice of Robin Hood in England in English oral tradition)
Composite caribou shortbow interesting. Odd how they were simply lashing the prices together rather than utilizing hide glue. And for how little those bows were. And what's up with the dry firing?
Thank you for sharing. Very interesting. Would be nice to show the distance at which they practiced the bow shooting. Surprised me then they dry-shot the bows to try them which is no-no in archery. And the targets were in the form of people - probably it shows a hard competition for resources there, I think.
The skills the Eskimos developed over thousands of years to survive are very impressive, most of their time went into finding food to eat and survival in general; it was a great addition when guns became available so game animals could more easily be killed and of course snowmobiles for travel.
You're right that guns and snowmobiles have made a lot of things easier, but one of the downsides is that all of the fancy modern technology requires money to purchase and maintain them. This creates a bit of a cultural domino effect, since money is needed to buy technology, a job is needed to get money, and few jobs are found in small remote communities.
You are right that, although it is possible to destroy an ecosystem by over-harvesting animals and other resources, but some don't realize that subsistence hunting can be done in a way that does nothing to harm the ecosystem and is sustainable... and sometimes hunting even helps to balance the distribution of animals (there are many places in Alaska where this is the case).
I feel ~ my humble opinion only ~ that more damage has been done to the traditional peoples of the far Artic regions because of technology, guns and snowmobiles. The social issues are killing so many off due to alcohol and the youth leaving their home communities to live in ‘white’ towns and settlements. No one is left in the tribe to care for the elderly. Of course we all remembered how small pox almost killed of the entire First Nation and Inuit people’s. It’s a shame big business’s only sees dollar signs when they look to the North. They see the oil and diamonds in the ground, a fresh supply of fish and a source of rare artwork made by hand and from scratch, bought for pennies and sold for thousands. It’s all rather sad really.
@@freddykrueger6571 bud no one said cold weather prevented tooth decay. But to anyone it should be obvious that a lack of refined sugars and starchy items DOES, and absolutely perfecy. Their oral microbiome was still in the primal healthy form and could not ever have become tooth decay. What they did suffer from is tooth wear.
I have this weird theory that these Eskimos are descendants from Mongolia during the Gengis Khan days. They could’ve lost their ways at one point and landed in Alaska from Asia.
From what I understand, they split off from the ancestral stock some time prior to Genghis Kahn, but there definitely do look to be some common points in genetics and material culture.
There are people in Alaska who still live like this today though they go to school still wearing traditional clothes. They live near an oil well, they were in a Runner's world due to one of the people of a Nearby more modern tribe when going to the school they found she was a great runner in Cross Country, later long trail ultra races so then when she was contacted by Runner's World she offered to take them back to the area and they got her tribe as well as the other becuse both tribes were close though the traditional tribe did not except modern things other then plastic frame sunglasses as the only improvement.
That dad would have been some brave man to take on a wife and family and have to provide with those weapons.....but he had skill that's for sure.....I remember seeing these in school....a long time ago....
i wonder if would have been possible to farm and raise seals? kinda like we raise cattle and pigs and other livestock. lol, dumb idea but just throwing that out there.
@@hewhodoes8073 I wonder what the appropriate drawlenght for this type of bow is. Usually it is the lenght of the limb or about 42% of the bending length of the bow but it seems that this type of construction won't be so generous. One of the bows was drawn to elbow pit even though it seemed to have the length for longer draw.
Alaska Extreme plans to publish a lot of new and original videos this year. What videos of Alaska and the Arctic would you like to see created? Let me know in the comments. This is a new channel. Please consider helping this channel grow by subscribing. Thanks for watching!
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I would like to see something on the whale hunters if possible. Cheers!!
It would be great to see how hides are cleaned and tanned/smoked from a perspective of a person who wants to learn how. The same goes for any food preservation skills that can still be practiced today. I live up North in Canada and so many of the old ways of the local First Nations have been lost. Making clothes would also be great. Thank you.
In these days of broken families this explains the importance of a Father figure better than I ever could.
Think it was team effort that built the bonds they had ... we live more like insects today than men
These days people have more choices and life much easier
Yes, it is lovely to hear the admiration he has for his father. Nowadays, so many many young white men speak begrudgingly or belittlingly of their fathers, yet cannot give a rational reason why they are so resentful except for what they learn in school about how white men are the cause of all wars and social problems and wrecked the planet. I wish more men of my generation and younger love and admire their father like I do, and like the man in this documentary does.
People who were in touch with themselves, each other and their environment in a way that seems impossible today.
@@daraa151and yet everyone is depressed
This documentary serie on Inuit civilization is more than precious. It visually documents life that still existed less than a century ago and back to 20,000 years ago or more in the great glaciations with actual video of it ! Our long ago distant ice age ancestors had to be as clever as this to survive which is no less than today and more.
this is soo beautiful, the way he used his teeth to straighten the wood shaft is also common here in Africa,
the people are soo in tuned with nature ,i hve really enjoyed this video .
May our ancestors keep on living forever in us who carry their spirits in our DNA.
right on
This just proves that while folk don't know shit lol
@@waynelevi5053 there are plenty of “white people” cultures who do this.
I just love the way it's narrated
Gyati Buda me too!! I’m addicted to this for some reason
Reminds me of the old malcom Douglas adventures
We watched many of these at school with a film projector.
@@stepbro4978 I can remember seeing this in school also loved it 🙂🚬
Every day night I sleep after listening the narration. It became lullaby to me
yes i hear you but i need to watch it to see what they are doing
That is a nice way of approaching and understanding to this gorgeous documentaries.
Same here
Same here
What a lovely series, so kind, gentle, informative.It was good they preserved it at the time so we have the record before people die and memories fade.
Amazing people in a time that no longer exists. These videos are a treasure.
This is something they would probably played when i still attended high school and I’d probably fall asleep in class while it played. Now I find these so interesting 😊
2:17 haii
Love how they’re all smiling. Seems so not stressful.
When the cameras on lol
They barely knew what they were
@@neptunearnatuk6378 they know exactly what they are
@@neptunearnatuk6378Lol.. Says who?
I am up north, born and raised inupiaqluguu from Kotzebue. Grew up in Point Hope Alaska. Ariigaa taikuu (thank you).
When my uncle and I were dog mushing in Wasilla Alaska we got a dog from Kotzebue. That dog on the coolest of nights would never even sleep in his dog house lol.
Not in Alaska
@@logan-mercer6045 same people. You are welcome to leave. Would you like a refund, Sherlock?
I would like to see videos of traditional hunting, fishing, shelter building, daily living, etc. Thanks for creating this channel!
A very hard way of life compared to mine but admire their stoicism. I hope their traditions and way of life are never lost.
They already are essentially
Tradition still not lost proud to be inuk Rn. But it’s different hunting now there’s boats Honda’s guns skidoo’s trails a town technology and all!! I am inuk
@@logan-mercer6045 yea at best 50/50 Inuit/modern culture. Bow&arrow+dog teams isn’t a reliable way to live when there are rifles and vehicles. I’m qalipu First Nations here in Newfoundland, where i live in St. John’s which is of course a modern city but I have lived with many native lifestyles during my life although most were removed by the Roman Catholic Church.
These videos are priceless. Thanks.
their smiles overcome the hardships!
Кизикарли филм учун админ сизга рахмат яна кутиб коламан
wonderful put this back on tv please
8:45 nicly lashed connection there. Beautifully crafted all around. It will kieel.
I love!!!!Forged inFire!@@!
i love this life style..thanks for this documentary.
Go there
too far away..i'm from malaysia..
Your video make me sleep i always play your video when im having a hard time to sleep and it always work 🤣
I'm in love with their big smiles 😅
I see this a lot sometimes because I live in Alaska tununak but I still watch these
Its amazing how happy these people are in an environment most of us would very easily be overcome by. Most of the children you see in these videos would easily outlast the heartiest of modern men.
As a traditional bowyer, it's cool to see how these people do it with minimal tools, I reckon this is the closet we have to seeing what ice age hunters were like
The Inuit are an amazingly advanced and innovative people, we owe them so much even our high tech society owes much to them.
In the 19th century, Europeans were using a primitive harpoon known as the One flue harpoon and they actually adopted the Inuit toggling harpoon because it was a superior design and still to this day whaling harpoons trace their design back to those used by the Inuit, unfortunately, we abused the technology through with our incessant slaughter of whales :(
Other innovative technologies include the famous Parker, the Kayak of course, the toboggan, the worlds first sunglasses, this amazingly complex bow design and the dog sled.
Thats not high tech.
Inuit harpoon is indeed better but I would not call it high tech. And the snow goggles are slits in wood whereas sunglasses are really a totally different thing. The kayak is something I would call genius.
@@aw1300 The inuit were very high tech for a hunter-gatherer society
I think the most golden days of mankind ... and most reliable period .
I am always amazed at their use of the third hand, throughout this series I see it all the time they use the mouth and teeth to hold, process or otherwise act as a third hand.
so nice to see this...thanks A ton for uploading..👍
23 Oct 2024.. this is my Fav Documentary everr❤❤
Fantastic series😊
Thanks for uploading 😊
Kenneth Janczak е9Яу
Very well Documented Pic. 👌👍
The fish weir that has been there for 300 winters oral history going back to the 1650's. Amazing!
If this guys join olympic bow arrow sure win...
Absolutely👍👍👍
Love archery history this is such a cool video, I find it interesting they don't seem to have a full draw or anchor point when they shoot.
i think they hunt the swimming caribou, so they get very close and dont need good aim.
Thats because they are more intelligent than you and they would never try to appear clever spouting some modern technical shite
@@-Oclock well no they talk about several animals that are hunted with the bow and generally you wouldn't fletch an arrow if you didn't care about your aim, clearly they are very accurate with the bow, the OP isn't saying they aren't accurate because they don't use an anchor point just that it's interesting.
Thank you very much 🙏😍🌺💖🌟💞
Hermoso documental
I love this smell of real life.
My grandfather was stationed in the aleutian islands during ww2. He killed a polar bear that was chasing an eskimo native. The man made a bear skin rug from the bear and gave him dolls and other pieces of native art. It was probably worth thousands all together but it was all lost during hurricane Katrina.
So sorry
well you think of it as "dollars"...I guess you didn't deserve the items
Thousands of years of tradition unhampered by progress.
love how their bows don't break when they keep dry firing.
I would had loved to be an inuit. These people were much happier without todays technology.
this is the best !
Super dokument. 👍
Bonne continuation et bon courage
Simple and beautiful life ... no stress... !
Plenty of strees
Just life and death, every day and night
They did mention famine actually. The series shows the gentle side and I suspect may have been made for children originally so they choose not to show hunger and death
Jane, Every Culture has experienced Hunger, deprivation, and throughout History, Starvation!! Can we, now living fat and happy, recognize these People for what they were able to accomplish?
Thanks
Take me back an age, back to better days.
In old times hobbies were learning skills to survive unlike nowadays!
True! Now, we are driven by something inside of us to connect with our primal selves, even though it isn't necessary to survive. As modern humans, we go hiking (even though it's no longer necessary), we catch and release fish (even though it's more efficient to just buy commercially caught fish), we build fires in our fireplaces just to stare at (even though our homes have heating), and we learn to sew and craft (even though everything is on Amazon). Even though we have the easiest lives in history, there is something deep inside of us that drives us to practice our primal skills, even though we don't need them to survive.
I love your replies to people. In contrast to many on RUclips, you do not take offense, and you answer the questions in a warm and very informative way. So wise :)
Other playing fortnite,pubg. And ordering burger to mcdonalds thats why they live shorter
Al;though even in the 1970s in England my sister and I were out in the woods looking for yew trees to make bows and arrows (yew was the wood of choice of Robin Hood in England in English oral tradition)
@@AlaskaExtreme So well put.
Thanks ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
சுதந்திரமான மனிதர்கள்.வாழ்த்துகிறேன்
So simple and nice people
The intro is like, real life Conan the Barbarian.
Real and natural way to live , where the cimical is not involved in people's life and everything is organic and those are live longer than us !
Composite caribou shortbow interesting. Odd how they were simply lashing the prices together rather than utilizing hide glue. And for how little those bows were. And what's up with the dry firing?
Piękny film.Piękni ludzie.
Myszlisz
So beautiful movie
Best Regards to al
Thanks ! Hurrah ! Hurrah !
And there are so many channels dedicated to "survival" yet how many of these people are capable of creating the tools to hunt big game.
I like this video
Amazing people .
Amazing
Where the hell did they get the shafts for the arrows in that barren landscape?
Give me the music of this film pls. Flute or trumpet... what's kind of music ? Tks
very interesting video
I love the way they can dry-fire a bow until it's only 30lb draw weight and still be able to kill a polar bear with it.
THE best.nice.instrutiv.
A respectable people who live of their own hands and toil only.
I would love to see how Tuktu son grew up and turned out, I'm sure things have changed but if he still uses some techniques his father taught him
Or father and mother is our heaven in this earth..tq for sharing
Interesting that they made human targets for showing off their skills with a bow.
good observation.
why not? When you go to a shooting range you have human silhouettes, right?
Thank you for sharing. Very interesting. Would be nice to show the distance at which they practiced the bow shooting. Surprised me then they dry-shot the bows to try them which is no-no in archery. And the targets were in the form of people - probably it shows a hard competition for resources there, I think.
I noticed the snowmen targets. I would guess that there was competition for scarce resources.
Where is tuktu (or his children ) now?
What wood did they use in Alaska to make the bow and arrow?
6:26 and 7:50
Wspaniali szczęśliwi ludzie. Nasza cywilizacja jest chora.
Inuits had plenty of harpoons, spears, bows and arrows, snow knifes, igloos, parkas, snow shoes, canoes and kayaks
The skills the Eskimos developed over thousands of years to survive are very impressive, most of their time went into finding food to eat and survival in general; it was a great addition when guns became available so game animals could more easily be killed and of course snowmobiles for travel.
You're right that guns and snowmobiles have made a lot of things easier, but one of the downsides is that all of the fancy modern technology requires money to purchase and maintain them. This creates a bit of a cultural domino effect, since money is needed to buy technology, a job is needed to get money, and few jobs are found in small remote communities.
Thanks Alaska Extreme for the valuable input, you are right especially about the more complicated equipment like the snowmobile.
You are right that, although it is possible to destroy an ecosystem by over-harvesting animals and other resources, but some don't realize that subsistence hunting can be done in a way that does nothing to harm the ecosystem and is sustainable... and sometimes hunting even helps to balance the distribution of animals (there are many places in Alaska where this is the case).
I feel ~ my humble opinion only ~ that more damage has been done to the traditional peoples of the far Artic regions because of technology, guns and snowmobiles. The social issues are killing so many off due to alcohol and the youth leaving their home communities to live in ‘white’ towns and settlements. No one is left in the tribe to care for the elderly. Of course we all remembered how small pox almost killed of the entire First Nation and Inuit people’s.
It’s a shame big business’s only sees dollar signs when they look to the North. They see the oil and diamonds in the ground, a fresh supply of fish and a source of rare artwork made by hand and from scratch, bought for pennies and sold for thousands. It’s all rather sad really.
These people are brave and tough
The atlatl is a much easier way and my inuvaliktun teacher let us watch these nice to finaly see these again
great
Great.
imagine your life dependent upon your skill with a bow and arrow you made. J.
Real living 💪
If I was ever in a survival situation in the vast wilderness I want to be with them.
No credit cards , mortgage,mafias like police , army , judiciary, religion 😎
no doctors, dentists or anti-biotics either.
what happens if you need emergency dental surgery or have a blood infection.
Freddy Krueger
This is life, much better than you modern fake life.
@@freddykrueger6571 they didnt have dental issues or blood infections. The cold can be a nice thing
@@lil_weasel219 Cold weather does not prevent infections or tooth decay. These guys must all be toothless by age 30.
@@freddykrueger6571 bud no one said cold weather prevented tooth decay. But to anyone it should be obvious that a lack of refined sugars and starchy items DOES, and absolutely perfecy. Their oral microbiome was still in the primal healthy form and could not ever have become tooth decay.
What they did suffer from is tooth wear.
Интересно сохранились ли у эскимосов с аляски какие -либо предания о противостоянии с чукчами
I have this weird theory that these Eskimos are descendants from Mongolia during the Gengis Khan days. They could’ve lost their ways at one point and landed in Alaska from Asia.
From what I understand, they split off from the ancestral stock some time prior to Genghis Kahn, but there definitely do look to be some common points in genetics and material culture.
I like that video it's very great and it's similar of the Philippines
What do you think? 15 or 20 pounds draw max?
In the video?
There are people in Alaska who still live like this today though they go to school still wearing traditional clothes. They live near an oil well, they were in a Runner's world due to one of the people of a Nearby more modern tribe when going to the school they found she was a great runner in Cross Country, later long trail ultra races so then when she was contacted by Runner's World she offered to take them back to the area and they got her tribe as well as the other becuse both tribes were close though the traditional tribe did not except modern things other then plastic frame sunglasses as the only improvement.
His father can heal the world I think....
تمنيتي أعيش معهم حتي طبيعية راع جدا رواع تنسيا هموم الدني الجزائر بسكرة منير غشام
That dad would have been some brave man to take on a wife and family and have to provide with those weapons.....but he had skill that's for sure.....I remember seeing these in school....a long time ago....
Awesome documentary. Does anyone know what is the temperature during a typical summer in this region ?
Thanks
12 to 19 degrees max
هل يستطيع الإنسان أن يعيش فقط على اللحوم فقط دون اكل خضروات وفواكة??
how did they get metal for the knifes
From meteorite stone.
i wonder if would have been possible to farm and raise seals? kinda like we raise cattle and pigs and other livestock. lol, dumb idea but just throwing that out there.
Did they ever shoot footage of the gathering of berries and greens?
I wonder if ever thought "Hey it's cold here! Let's go south"..
Couple probably did
I’m Labrador Inuit but we came here for whale hunting
Maybe they thought cold was so much better than crazy civilizations 😂
😊😊😊😊😊
I wonder what the draw weigh of Taktu's father's bow was. Those bows didn't seem like they were heavy to pull.
@@hewhodoes8073 I wonder what the appropriate drawlenght for this type of bow is. Usually it is the lenght of the limb or about 42% of the bending length of the bow but it seems that this type of construction won't be so generous. One of the bows was drawn to elbow pit even though it seemed to have the length for longer draw.