We also have berries and greens from the wild to add to our diet. I still eat a lot of our nature food from the land and sea. I married a man who is originally a blond, blue eyed German. He has grown to like a lot of our food as it is caught fresh and served when fresh. Furs are also the only garment that will keep you warm the harshest of climate. No man made material can compare to furs.
These people humble me, and make me give thanks for all the things I have that make life so easy and comfortable. I watch them with almost shame for how I've counted all those things I have that I've counted as nothing. They amaze me how they can survive in such a hostile environment
+Кортни Грэхем lol, not really, my grandmother was one of these people, she was diffidently not happy. there is a lot of things that goes unsaid in this dokument. In greenland one of the biggest events in a persons life is their first day of school, not because we care much about school, but because almost every child used to be death before the age of 5. My grandmother was caring for her siblings when her mother and father went out to hunt, and her baby sister died in her arm, she was only 7 at the time, inbreeding was also a huge problem back then, but we do not talk about that, that is taboo.
thank you for completing the video with your own life account. It makes us more human to hear about other people different kind of life struggle. Health is the most important, living a hard life while being healthy and free can bring happiness.
Coming from a desert I can see the similarities both places are inhospitable, barren, and unforgiving places. They are exactly the same thing except they are opposite of two extremes.
That’s a most humble beautiful family...it’s incredible to watch them how they can survive in hostile environment....I’m very highly respected them ...and very touching
Each family member had a Job, The Men and Son would hunt they were taught at a young age, the women gathered made clothing and kept house each job was important, if you were lazy you weren't wanted even if you were appealing lol.
The audio guy probably knew guns didn't sound like that, but old US westerns would often use the classic ricochet sound, so it was normal to use it in many films/docs at that time to represent a gunshot. Most of the other sound effects in this are probably Foley.
Marvelous :: lm reminded of stories told by an Aleut Eskimo during our time in the military , his Christian name is Erich Morgan . At night Erich would arise sound asleep singing and dancing speaking Inuit with his grandmother in the manner of his people . Erich was a good man , I still remember his adventures of hunting and fishing .
@hellerZauberer My dad had the Yupik beaten out of him when he went to school. When ever he spoke his language he had his hands slapped with a ruler...across the knuckles too. I had that done to me when I was in school, but not for speaking my tongue. My dad heard about this and he left work to deal with the principle immediately. Later he told me of how he got his hands slapped. How his dad and his brother and sister in law, brought back dance to our area.
Hello from Los Angeles. In 1968 I had an Eskimo roommate in College. He was sent by Bureau of Indian Affairs and later joined the Navy. Joel Uyumnick from the village of Unalakleet. If anyone knows him, let me know. He should be around 70 yr.
@@orangepenguin7782they receive free healthcare and free education (from kindergarten all the way to university) from the government of Canada (Quebec) because the government had to compensate both the Inuit and Cree people for the genocide and slaughter of Inuit and Cree
@@orangepenguin7782 the government of Quebec wanted to buy the land of the Inuit and the land of the Crees but the tribes debated with the government and they had a stand off agreement in the end the government didn’t buy the land but they made an agreement if they had part of the lands the Inuit and Crees owned the Inuit and Crees would get free healthcare and free education in return for some of their land
I love this documentary. It makes me sad to think that the children could very well be dead by now. I would love to know what the future held for them.
@@odinoky5814 The documentary was made 73 years ago. Harri & Vera were aged about 10 & 8 respectively. That would make them 83-80 years old now (2022). It's more than possible they are still alive.
Something very interesting about the Inuit is that they are able to live on an almost all meat and fish diet with out having any heart disease or any of the common diseases associated with such a diet
First, in this video, Inuit Kamiks(sealskin boots) are waterproof and the hunter could easily walk in the water without bother but would have hunted with a real kayak or in group, with a large open REAL umiak...Parkas have the face shielded without the fancy long haired ring and be inside out caribou skin... (Coppermine Inuits hunted caribous all winter without ANY fire) Few old time Inuits had rifles and they still hunted polar bears with spears and ivory knives! Inuit Igloos used no fabric etc
I'm an Eskimo and no we dont get offended by being called an Eskimo. We are hard workers and our tradtion must live on even though our new generation provides a lot more than what we use to get back in the days.
I am and was born an Inupiat native of Alaska living off the land. I wish we can turn back time and remain a nation by ourselves instead of Russia taking land and selling what was not theirs. Was hard to grow up with laws made by people who do not understand or know of our ways of survival. We have even less freedom when the land claims went though. Long story. Just telling a little of my thoughts.
young youtubers, these people's lifestyle exist no more. All these documentaries have the status of museum documents giving you a glimpse into a world that was swallowed If you want to oppose the destruction of culture and unique people, you need to stop supporting globalism and international corporatism that wants to make all people boringly identical so they can sell you their junk devices. If you own a smartphone especially iphone you contributed to the destruction of world cultures.
Interesting and well done documentary (considering it was 1949). I live in Northern Maine and have experienced quite cold weather, but up there it is COLD!
Thanks, when I was Traveling I overheard 2 men saying we hunt only for the ivory and skins, I got mad that they thought that and I told them we do not hunt just for those things nothing on the animal is wasted yes we may sell skins or carved ivory it helps but that doesn't mean we throw the meat away, my Grandfather taught me at a young age he always told me Respect the Animal always apologize and give thanks cause they have feelings too they're like us but we need to eat to survive, I remember getting scolded when I was scared to finish my kill He told me don't make it suffer like that and I've never seen him mad except for that time, from then on I made sure i wouldn't do that again.
Love this boys ,very well put together film, for at the time it is ahead of the time , and dad is a good shot ,never took a rest much to shoot ,I'm watching it again ,amazing how so close to starvation, if everyone doesn't help ,or bad luck happens , family as it should be ,a lost way of life that could destroy us if ,it comes to it ,and may
@gvenema That sounds like Danny Bravo, who did the voice of Hadji in "Jonny Quest". But he was born in 1948 while this thing was filmed in 1949. Could the voice-over have been plugged in years later?
This footage depicts the natural lifestyle of the Eskimo, a special people who depend on their own skill for survival. They take only what they need..Nothing is wasted. So unlike us "modern " people
My parents grew up this way before fish and game was put in. I grew up this way as fish and game started to dictate to us when, how, or what to hunt or fish. Violating their law was bought into the court system. Discouraged a lot of our youth growing up starting in the late eighties as fish and game became more aggressive in asserting their authority. Yes, my time of happiness is when I am out gathering our food from the land.
Yup. Iglu just means "house" period. The round snowhouse tradition did not reach as far West as Alaska. Danish explorer/sailor/trader/author/romantic Peter Freuchen wrote that The People of Greenland only built round snowhouses during winter travel. It was The People of the Central Arctic who built larger and more elaborate round snowhouses to live in throughout the winter. Some of the wintering whaling captains took some pretty good photographs. Look up Dorothy Harley Eber.
I think we should not romanticise what native life might have been before European contact for the Inuit. Life must surely have been quite hard... the arctic is an extreme environement, and there is ample evidence to show that famine and short life expectancy was in the cards in many region of the arctic BEFORE european arrival...
Yes, our lives were hard, and many died because of disease, introduced by Norwegian explorers, which has them in our country as early as the 1500's. Many surviving artifacts and number of sod houses lead to over 1500 in Tigigak, or Point Hope. Barrow had much less people but were non-the-less resourceful, famines were only introduced by western contact, that gave them cholera, and other disease like sphylis, and gonerea. Thousands died when yankee whalers brought disease, you can still see the piles of bones where the Inuits had died from that contact, the famines were because the hunters usually were the first to die, because they had been utilized for their whaling expertise that killed instantly with only long lances. Many harpoon heads have been found in modern day whales that when tested with carbon14 were found to be 250 year old whales, many of our whalers told them that whales were living up to 500 years, but scientist laughed. But, by the grace of God we were vindicated by these ancient harpoons still intact with these old whales.
Makes me think about the hardships I face with my family. Harpooning with my bare hands some fish from the Freezer, it takes skill to reach in there with precision. Then unpeeling the plastic skin to get into the fish using sometimes a pair of man made (in a factory) scissors. Starting a fire takes great skill in turning the knob just right to the right fire height on the stove. Then hunting for the Olive Oil in my pantry requires some time in search of it among the other man made items found there. Once found, I have to sort among the pans in my cabinets and find just the right size and start the pan heating with the Oil I was able to find. Then the fish is ready for cooking. All this takes about 10 whole minutes. Whew!... I can totally relate with these people.
Can we take a moment to appreciate Father's mad skills with that grappling hook. Impressive.
Ppp
My Grandfather was pretty good at it too
Ikr??? I'm so amazed... I feel like a soft, detached from nature simp.
Very good.👍
Pretty impressive with the rifle too
Please keep this tradition alive. Greetings and love from Ireland
We also have berries and greens from the wild to add to our diet. I still eat a lot of our nature food from the land and sea. I married a man who is originally a blond, blue eyed German. He has grown to like a lot of our food as it is caught fresh and served when fresh. Furs are also the only garment that will keep you warm the harshest of climate. No man made material can compare to furs.
where are you from
These people humble me, and make me give thanks for all the things I have that make life so easy and comfortable. I watch them with almost shame for how I've counted all those things I have that I've counted as nothing. They amaze me how they can survive in such a hostile environment
They choose to live life like this. It isnt a burden for them, its simply a way of life. You dont have to feel sorry for anyone
@@juice8431they're just built different
One of the most fascinating videos I ever saw. What a wonderful natural life. Draws you to want to be there.
Very hard life. Takes a lot of work and hardship for this people just to survive.
I feel sympathy and respect for them.
+Honesty Fenix They are definitely incredible people and they are known to be the happiest on earth too!
+Кортни Грэхем lol, not really, my grandmother was one of these people, she was diffidently not happy. there is a lot of things that goes unsaid in this dokument. In greenland one of the biggest events in a persons life is their first day of school, not because we care much about school, but because almost every child used to be death before the age of 5. My grandmother was caring for her siblings when her mother and father went out to hunt, and her baby sister died in her arm, she was only 7 at the time, inbreeding was also a huge problem back then, but we do not talk about that, that is taboo.
thank you for completing the video with your own life account. It makes us more human to hear about other people different kind of life struggle. Health is the most important, living a hard life while being healthy and free can bring happiness.
Sitting on computer 24 hours a day eating sugar kill you .
@@enanden9025 thanks for sharing your grandma memories with us, I really hope things will get better for the Arctic original people.
Coming from a desert I can see the similarities both places are inhospitable, barren, and unforgiving places. They are exactly the same thing except they are opposite of two extremes.
Another similarity is regions with harsh climates have smaller populations.
I've watched this 5 times already and its always a bummer when it comes to an end.
Why
My dad & grandma are from Point Hope,I wish they lived long enough to tell me of my family.nThis gives me alot of insight, thanks.
Awesome quality documentary for 1949. I love that the Eskimo boy is the one narrating rather than some outsider.
Or a robotic voice. 😎
That’s a most humble beautiful family...it’s incredible to watch them how they can survive in hostile environment....I’m very highly respected them ...and very touching
I LOVE this!!! This was made the year I was born...how much things have changed!!!
Nice..!
The good old days
You dead
A well produced video with a treasure chest of cultural and historical information.
fasx56
Fine gentlemen taking care of his beautiful family
I'm sure their doing their part
Coyote killa it is beautiful isn’t it?
Each family member had a Job,
The Men and Son would hunt they were taught at a young age, the women gathered made clothing and kept house each job was important, if you were lazy you weren't wanted even if you were appealing lol.
hehehe
Very nice to see people from another part of the world how they live. Great video thanks for sharing
greetings from Scotland - fascinating movie :-) and even worse weather than us! But that howling wind is too familiar.
😊👍
Thank you for posting this video,I enjoyed watching it.
Odd choice of sound dubbing for the gun (sound of a ricochet). Chosen by a person who has never heard a gun fire.
What if the seal was wearing armor plating?
The audio guy probably knew guns didn't sound like that, but old US westerns would often use the classic ricochet sound, so it was normal to use it in many films/docs at that time to represent a gunshot.
Most of the other sound effects in this are probably Foley.
Marvelous :: lm reminded of stories told by an Aleut Eskimo during our time in the military , his Christian name is Erich Morgan . At night Erich would arise sound asleep singing and dancing speaking Inuit with his grandmother in the manner of his people . Erich was a good man , I still remember his adventures of hunting and fishing .
👍
Fascinating how people can go from this to desert nomads, humanity can live and flourish anywhere given time
love this. life was so different back in the day. thanks for putting on youtube buddy
And still is like that, you can see it in Life Below Zero
@hellerZauberer My dad had the Yupik beaten out of him when he went to school. When ever he spoke his language he had his hands slapped with a ruler...across the knuckles too. I had that done to me when I was in school, but not for speaking my tongue. My dad heard about this and he left work to deal with the principle immediately. Later he told me of how he got his hands slapped. How his dad and his brother and sister in law, brought back dance to our area.
Hello from Los Angeles. In 1968 I had an Eskimo roommate in College. He was sent by Bureau of Indian Affairs and later joined the Navy. Joel Uyumnick from the village of Unalakleet. If anyone knows him, let me know. He should be around 70 yr.
I'm a Navajo who is currently in Alaska, hanging out with the Natives. Muktuk is the bomb!
Yooo man can i have your instagram
from a native of New Zealand...i wish you and your people well brother...!
We its actually pronounced mungtak but yeah mainlanders spell it and pronounce it Muktak
It's 2021 but Never get tired of watching this video ❤️
No peta here ...
Lovely family
Nice video with historical information,
Beautiful family and their traditional hunting, a good piece of knowledge for me
The good old days! When ppl were strong and respected each other
I love the fake sound of the bullet ricocheting off...the water? 😂
It's hard to believe they were still living like that in 1949 .
Jamal Al-Uqdah I would expect them to be the surviving ones if any because they’re so isolated up there that diseases may not have reached them.
I got a question do there inuit people get educated?
@@orangepenguin7782they receive free healthcare and free education (from kindergarten all the way to university) from the government of Canada (Quebec) because the government had to compensate both the Inuit and Cree people for the genocide and slaughter of Inuit and Cree
@@orangepenguin7782 the government of Quebec wanted to buy the land of the Inuit and the land of the Crees but the tribes debated with the government and they had a stand off agreement in the end the government didn’t buy the land but they made an agreement if they had part of the lands the Inuit and Crees owned the Inuit and Crees would get free healthcare and free education in return for some of their land
The group I lived with still hunt similar to how they have in the past. Obviously using guns now, but many methods similar and the same game animals.
Lebo leigh Leigh and the white man also slaughtered thousands of their sled dogs on baffin island your point?
@@nsdtgabe4082 I guess he thinks they wouldn't be able to hunt without them lol.
So lovely. .Thank you so much for this wonderful video. ...
eskimos are hard working people ! :)
kind a of a pleonasm. There would be no surviving lazy eskimo.
THE INUIT.
Not anymore.
The welfare state has destroyed their values and traditions.
Thank you for posting this.
They look to be from nwt Alaska or Nunavik. We don't have that style of parkas in Nunavut
the children are so cute.
similar to koreans
@@goognamgoognw6637 makes sense
@@goognamgoognw6637 No .... Korean face is made by plastic surgery. lol
But then something happends, when they get older.
Children? They're probably in their 90s now
superb documentary, beautifully filmed, thank you very much
Thanks for posting,really enjoyed watching this video!
I love this documentary. It makes me sad to think that the children could very well be dead by now. I would love to know what the future held for them.
The children are hardly alive
@@odinoky5814 The documentary was made 73 years ago. Harri & Vera were aged about 10 & 8 respectively. That would make them 83-80 years old now (2022). It's more than possible they are still alive.
Best fisher man I ever saw! So precise!
Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe??????
18:54 this guy is getting down! great documentary, really enjoyed it.
Something very interesting about the Inuit is that they are able to live on an almost all meat and fish diet with out having any heart disease or any of the common diseases associated with such a diet
That’s cause they eat little & move a lot. Now they eat a lot & move little.
Now I talk a lot & move little, the end is near.
It is not fat that causes health problems. Its sugar.
Dang ,I love this , dad always gets his family through ,wait mom does as much or more
"... or more ... " The Hell Do YOU Know jimmy ? Relax And Just Enjoy The Doc
@skooltech it's called a "sod-house" it's not fake, just more a little bit of modern mixed with culture.. we all adapt to the living arraignments..
Thank you so much, that is indeed a treasure.
Love the sound design
LMAO at the sound overlays. Whistling wind every time they showed an outside screen, and especially the ricocheting bullets off of water.
God what I would give to have a day or an hour or even a few moments to just have a discussion with these people amazing
It's so cold that bullets ricochet off the water even in the summertime.
Haha!!!
How dynamic is that man❄️
How dynamic is this one ruclips.net/video/OODnFvYXqYM/видео.html
Precious documentary.
Very informative.
Enfin des vrais images , ça fait du bien ,merci beaucoup 🔥💕♥️🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵
Thumbs up, this documentary is priceless.
First, in this video, Inuit Kamiks(sealskin boots) are waterproof and the hunter could easily walk in the water without bother but would have hunted with a real kayak or in group, with a large open REAL umiak...Parkas have the face shielded without the fancy long haired ring and be inside out caribou skin...
(Coppermine Inuits hunted caribous all winter without ANY fire) Few old time Inuits had rifles and they still hunted polar bears with spears and ivory knives!
Inuit Igloos used no fabric etc
You mean like ruclips.net/video/OODnFvYXqYM/видео.html
I'm an Eskimo and no we dont get offended by being called an Eskimo. We are hard workers and our tradtion must live on even though our new generation provides a lot more than what we use to get back in the days.
I am and was born an Inupiat native of Alaska living off the land. I wish we can turn back time and remain a nation by ourselves instead of Russia taking land and selling what was not theirs. Was hard to grow up with laws made by people who do not understand or know of our ways of survival. We have even less freedom when the land claims went though. Long story. Just telling a little of my thoughts.
How can anyone get angry after watching this? Just write nice comments please. Such a lovely piece of film that will be a treasure forever.
@wildersara
Darn. I never saw or read of a one-man umiak (05:30) paddled with a kayak paddle before. That's a new one.
Inuits or eskimos , are actually not as closely related to native Americans as one would think . They're actually mongolian descendants.
We share a common cultural ancestor with the Mongolians. Also Inuits is not a word Inuit is already plural.
Very interesting video it's so nice to see other cultures. Thank you for sharing
young youtubers, these people's lifestyle exist no more. All these documentaries have the status of museum documents giving you a glimpse into a world that was swallowed If you want to oppose the destruction of culture and unique people, you need to stop supporting globalism and international corporatism that wants to make all people boringly identical so they can sell you their junk devices. If you own a smartphone especially iphone you contributed to the destruction of world cultures.
@@goognamgoognw6637 You should ask an eskimo if they prefer modern civilization
Kenshin Dionio No, *you* should ask the entire native american Indians if they like what "moderm"
civilization did to them.
Interesting and well done documentary (considering it was 1949). I live in Northern Maine and have experienced quite cold weather, but up there it is COLD!
Great filming 👍👍
These must be the most well off eskimos! On all other documentaries they hardly have a home to stay.
To me it's beautiful life. I love it
Yeah right.....spoken via a smartphone 😜
That was lovely to see. I wonder what it was like before the guns and the trading post and the modern dress material.
This should give a slight idea.ruclips.net/video/OODnFvYXqYM/видео.html
This film was made one year after I was born. Now most of their traditional life is gone forever. That is so sad.
A Very beautiful family. I’m an animal lover but I understand.
Thanks, when I was Traveling I overheard 2 men saying we hunt only for the ivory and skins, I got mad that they thought that and I told them we do not hunt just for those things nothing on the animal is wasted yes we may sell skins or carved ivory it helps but that doesn't mean we throw the meat away, my Grandfather taught me at a young age he always told me Respect the Animal always apologize and give thanks cause they have feelings too they're like us but we need to eat to survive, I remember getting scolded when I was scared to finish my kill
He told me don't make it suffer like that and I've never seen him mad except for that time, from then on I made sure i wouldn't do that again.
I wonder where they are today?
Love this boys ,very well put together film, for at the time it is ahead of the time , and dad is a good shot ,never took a rest much to shoot ,I'm watching it again ,amazing how so close to starvation, if everyone doesn't help ,or bad luck happens , family as it should be ,a lost way of life that could destroy us if ,it comes to it ,and may
@gvenema
That sounds like Danny Bravo, who did the voice of Hadji in "Jonny Quest". But he was born in 1948 while this thing was filmed in 1949. Could the voice-over have been plugged in years later?
Thanks for posting
Loves these people they’re hard working and traditional ways
Beautiful beautiful film. Thank you
This footage depicts the natural lifestyle of the Eskimo, a special people who depend on their own skill for survival. They take only what they need..Nothing is wasted. So unlike us "modern " people
Great vid. Thanks for sharing it.
thanks, very interesting! I enjoyed watching it.
Excellent film. They adjust to a hard life and they thrive
The lifestyle depicted here isn't the 'natural lifestyle' of the original Eskimo.. notice the gun, the wooden house, and western foods?
What a great anthopological footage!
I wonder if there are people living like that after 60 years?
such innocence in his voice. Her joy because of her stove. May God have mercy upon all of us.
Beautiful people!
Imagine leaving your home for who knows how long with a dog sled without your phone and headphones. Crazy man
My parents grew up this way before fish and game was put in. I grew up this way as fish and game started to dictate to us when, how, or what to hunt or fish. Violating their law was bought into the court system. Discouraged a lot of our youth growing up starting in the late eighties as fish and game became more aggressive in asserting their authority. Yes, my time of happiness is when I am out gathering our food from the land.
Great information bessie. thank you.
@mattommojack where did u get ur info from cause inuit ppl come from Mongolia
They look happy and contented
Excellent film. Very informative.
That is good insight as to maybe why perception about the term seems to vary widely.
This was so interesting. Thank you very much.
nice. Thanks for showing it.
I’m from point hope!
@traincrashcalum Sorry my bad. I wouldn't know them from Adam. Thank you for the correction. And Thank you for your reply.
yeah I might research the subject
Google search ....Tuktu.... true life eskimos
bought at the trading post
Yup. Iglu just means "house" period.
The round snowhouse tradition did not reach as far West as Alaska. Danish explorer/sailor/trader/author/romantic Peter Freuchen wrote that The People of Greenland only built round snowhouses during winter travel. It was The People of the Central Arctic who built larger and more elaborate round snowhouses to live in throughout the winter. Some of the wintering whaling captains took some pretty good photographs. Look up Dorothy Harley Eber.
I think we should not romanticise what native life might have been before European contact for the Inuit. Life must surely have been quite hard... the arctic is an extreme environement, and there is ample evidence to show that famine and short life expectancy was in the cards in many region of the arctic BEFORE european arrival...
You don't think life looks hard in this video?
Yes, our lives were hard, and many died because of disease, introduced by Norwegian explorers, which has them in our country as early as the 1500's. Many surviving artifacts and number of sod houses lead to over 1500 in Tigigak, or Point Hope. Barrow had much less people but were non-the-less resourceful, famines were only introduced by western contact, that gave them cholera, and other disease like sphylis, and gonerea. Thousands died when yankee whalers brought disease, you can still see the piles of bones where the Inuits had died from that contact, the famines were because the hunters usually were the first to die, because they had been utilized for their whaling expertise that killed instantly with only long lances. Many harpoon heads have been found in modern day whales that when tested with carbon14 were found to be 250 year old whales, many of our whalers told them that whales were living up to 500 years, but scientist laughed. But, by the grace of God we were vindicated by these ancient harpoons still intact with these old whales.
Makes me think about the hardships I face with my family. Harpooning with my bare hands some fish from the Freezer, it takes skill to reach in there with precision. Then unpeeling the plastic skin to get into the fish using sometimes a pair of man made (in a factory) scissors. Starting a fire takes great skill in turning the knob just right to the right fire height on the stove. Then hunting for the Olive Oil in my pantry requires some time in search of it among the other man made items found there. Once found, I have to sort among the pans in my cabinets and find just the right size and start the pan heating with the Oil I was able to find. Then the fish is ready for cooking. All this takes about 10 whole minutes. Whew!... I can totally relate with these people.
Your a knob.
Anh cung Chuc em va gia quyen luon khoe va rang bao Trong cho qua con Dich nay.Chao em .
How do they check there facebook?
Hi