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I read your post hours ago and it reminded me of an Inuit experience that I had years ago and was trying to remember details forgotten when my computer got one of those screen lockouts that tell you not to shut down. I am so punchy about memory and details that I thought I would never get it working properly. Maybe tomorrow I can get it all together and reciprocate.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 6, 2022 at 2:56 PM
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I am sure the Inuit people deal with Polar bears much better than the rest of us do. So adorably beautiful but a friend of mine in Canada who works for a mining company watched in horror as a polar bear ripped off his friends head, and started to eat him. It is one of my climate change worries that Polar bears are roaming further South and finding how good garbage dump food is for them plus the odd beast and human.
posted by
Kabu
on October 6, 2022 at 2:48 PM
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Survival of course worked for them it may not have been very progressive, but I bet they knew how to get a fur coat. 
posted by
C_C_T
on October 6, 2022 at 10:42 AM
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I enjoyed taking a class on the Inuit. They are indeed a very closeknit community that depends on their survival with the help of mother nature. The first Europeans that arrived tried to "civilize" and "dress them appropriately found they couldn't survive the harsh winters dressed like that.
posted by
Annicita
on October 6, 2022 at 8:58 AM
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Good Morning
Pat, this is an awesome post. I know your interview with the anthropologist was everything you hoped it would be. I would love to study how a tribe lives in their everyday life. I never knew polar bears were such a threat.
posted by
Goldiec
on October 6, 2022 at 8:13 AM
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Good morning
You have had many interesting experiences in your lifetime. I really should have taken some journalism and English classes when I was younger, but I was busy running a cleaning business instead. Because of that, my writing skills are way below average, but I refuse to let that stop me. As for your story, Barbara was quite a personality from what you have said about her, and she quite literally got into her work. What a fascinating time she must have had during that time of living with that tribe. I find the study of people to be highly interesting. One of my favorite Food Network chefs, Giada DeLaurentiis, studied anthropology in college before changing over to a culinary school where she took a hard course in France. If you are interested, you can read the back story for Giada at the link below.
Giada De Laurentiis' Transformation Is Seriously Turning Heads (mashed.com)
posted by
Sherri_G
on October 6, 2022 at 7:58 AM
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