Product Description: Long before Europeans explored the lands and waters above the Arctic Circle, several Inuit groups lived in this harsh, snowy landscape. They spoke different languages and developed unique ways to thrive in the ice and snow. These include making homes from whalebones and animals skins and hunting seals with spears through holes in the ice...read more

Product Description: As early as the 1500s, fur traders from Europe began to arrive in the Subarctic region of North America. These traders were greeted by the many groups of native peoples already living in the region. These native peoples had their own languages, cultures, and methods for hunting and surviving in this land where it snowed 200 days a year...read more

Product Description: Introduces the Native Nations of the Arctic and Subarctic, including historical details and highlights from contemporary culture and economic life. The tribes covered in this title are Inuit, Yup'ik, Unangan, Northern Athabaskan, Innu, Cree, Ojibwe, Atikamekw.