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...millennium or so ago, the archipelago from Hudson Bay through Nunavut to northern Greenland was inhabited by nomadic groups we now call the Dorset people. They were, according to Inuit legend, tall and gentle folk, and they hunted from the ice edge, harpooning seals and walruses with tools made of bone and ivory. When a slight warming period hit about 1,000 years ago, the ice receded. Bowhead whales moved in from Alaskan waters, followed by seafaring hunters from the Bering Strait. With their boats, those hunters, the forebears of Canadian Inuit, eventually spread east to Greenland. For reasons still...
...water would allow it to stay in waters that are less likely to freeze. “One thing this is showing is how little we know about a lot of creatures, especially those in the north,” said Fitzhugh. “Closer work with the Inuit will bring about more results [on the narwhal’s tusk].” The Inuits, an indigenous people living in the Arctic, are very familiar with the animals. Nweeia, who also has a full-time dental practice in Connecticut, said he pursued research of the narwhal?...
...Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg. Denmark's exploitation of Greenland's mineral resources seems an unlikely background for a detective thriller about the mysterious death of a six-year-old Inuit boy. Unlikely too is the investigator, Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman caught between the native Greenland culture of her hunter-tracker mother and the well-appointed world of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Like Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California, Hoeg creates an unfamiliar but palpable world that steadily envelops the reader...
...more masculine latticework of the Antwerp Mesh, while women might prefer the Bruges Lace's genteel paisley (the eyewear starts at $460, and optical lenses are also available). As with most fashion trends, slatted sunglasses are nothing new. Theo's line was inspired by the Inuit, who have worn wooden masks with a single slit to block the northern sunlight for hundreds of years. That's not a look likely to hit the department stores anytime soon, but Theo's designs may well prove a shady business winner. www.theo.be
Fortunately, she can be lured back to film for the right director. While on location in Newfoundland with Alan Rudolph for Afterglow, she took the plight of the local Inuit people to heart and is now campaigning on their behalf. An inveterate lefty, she plans to leave Britain for somewhere like-minded, France or Spain. "I won't see my own history being dismantled in front of my own eyes...