Eskimo Summer, 1943

Canadian Eskimo life in the early 1940s. To purchase a DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at [e-mail]. To license footage from this film visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

[@williamjanssen3318]

1943..... WW2..... it gives such a unique perspective of how much has changed in our world in such a short period of time.

[@bruce9897]

Who knew in 2019, this video would have so many views. Great share

[@VIKTORISAKSSON]

Amazing footage. Sometimes I forget how long ago this actually happaned, to put things into perspective, I compare it with the age of my now deceased grandpa, he was 21 years old at the time. WoW, as I said, great footage, Love it. Fascinating culture being portrayed there.

[@jozsefkacsa]

I live up in the North(BC/Yukon)border and was working on the Rigs up in the High Arctic Tuktoyaktuk,Inuvik and Norman Wells areas and tell you guys the Inuit(Eskimo)ppl are the thoughest ppl on this Earth .They're unbelievable!!!

[@ice-cold_3469]

jozsefkacsa hi im from tuk thanks for your service in the oil rigs. i still here stories from guys around here back in the 70s with the high risk jobs they did

[@jonnydanger7181]

jozsefkacsa I believe it!

[@abhisheksammy8665]

So sweet family ...they live together with harmony 😍

[@xucthclu]

Not just survived, chances are, their health was better than most peoples health on a modern diet.

[@garychynne1377]

ALREADY IT IS HISTORY. WE ARE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE OLD FILMS OF OUR HUMAN ANCESTOR'S LIFESTYLES FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD. LEARN WHERE YOU'VE BEEN, IT WILL HELP WHERE YOUR GOING. TAKE CARE GARE

[@suzannehartman1392]

Nice seeying you here gare

[@goodgame7892]

Youre right.m this is A piece of a window of history

[@annwaine2881]

I bet the people in this video were really healthy. It seems a hard way of life, but they had community and healthy fresh food, although I wonder if they suffered because they didn't have vegetables? Fascinating film.

[@palmapanfu]

Chukchi people were always healthy, although our diet consisted mainly of meats and organs (whale,walrus,seal,caribou,small mammals,fish) we ate plenty of cranberries, tundra berries and blueberries in the summer. Yes, Siberia's tundra does have these berries and many more! we ate many vegetables that grow in the tundra and we ate Yupik mantak (whale blubber or meat with the skin)

[@alexrea6338]

Great videos! Keep them coming.

[@janesmith9024]

That was lovely to see - a unique historic record. And it also shows how they had already been affected by being given primus stoves, guns etc and had had 300 years of he Hudson trading co.

[@matthewmann8969]

I had encounters with Alaska Natives and they are a respectable admirable people

[@charlescore2275]

These people live a communal life. Everything is cared for, as it cannot be easily replaced. They cooperate, not compete. We would be wise to emulate them.

[@goodgame7892]

Their Like Enlightened People.. They are not more on Material Things and Money..

[@hensonlaura]

@@goodgame7892 there WERE NO material things & money!

[@patrickkolola6615]

Awesome. My hometown. Formerly known as lake harbor now kimmirut.

[@pinz2022]

The "Paleo Diet". The thesis being that we humans evolved to eat meat (and "meat by-products"), fruits, nuts and berries. We've only been farmers for the last ten thousand years (an eyeblink) and we were never meant to live on grains and legumes. That's the argument, anyway.

[@TheUltimateNatural]

True. We could also adapt to a grains and legumes diet but there's no telling how long that would take.

[@williamjanssen3318]

Such a resilient, intelligent culture.....amazing time in man's existence..... I'm sure this level of skill is already lost by these beautiful people...... such an amazing piece of preserved culture to have!!!

[@tompanetti75]

complete admiration

[@DYLANNGUYEN68]

I have watch this clip 10 years ago and now I’m watching it again lol I Love the way of living life ❤

[@pinz2022]

Not so, as it turns out, fresh meat (raw or slightly undercooked) is in fact loaded with Vitamin C. The nineteenth-century whaling captains who wintered over in the Arctic often sent their men to live in the Inuit villages and eat their food whenever they showed signs of scurvy. This was none-to-popular. In "Life With The Esquimaux" explorer Charles Francis Hall relates the story of one such sailor who got fed up with Inuit food and froze to death in a blizzard walking back to the ship.

[@beattegabriel2609]

nice, thank you for sharing:)

[@inullarik]

We would like to be known as "INUIT" Eskimoes is a name given by Indians. We do live in modern houses now but we still use these traditions while out hunting. Our traditions are being passed on to the younger generations, but it is getting harder now as todays society demands money, and the younger generations are adapting to the white mans traditions to gather as much money as possible to survive the ridiculously high prices that the southerners are charging sky high rates to ship necessities north

[@EbenHopson329]

inullarik I agree! I'm Iñupiaq from Barrow Alaska

[@EbenHopson329]

inullarik I agree! I'm Iñupiaq from Barrow Alaska #preachit

[@Slim-_-DooDoo]

inullarik im inuit from Greenland,

[@queenethefirstcreatorofthe7309]

And you f SUCK.! EA

[@akbeautyrose7775]

Queen E The First CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE and YOU must consider yourself to be a FINE human being, taken by your Intelligent sounding statement. NOT!

[@MlpPh0enixWhisper]

Good movie story of the tundra about the reindeer people of Siberia same people as in Alaska and Canada

[@aloupaooging7951]

that was life before some white men see eskimo we have alot of story in our village

[@SuperOlds88]

Somehow they mixed up the titles here, This is actually Detroit, Michigan in 2013. Former auto workers trying to survive.

[@frankburns8871]

Right. Take away your typical Detroiter's Section 8, food stamps, welfare, etc., and they wouldn't survive a week. If they had to fend for themselves in the arctic, they wouldn't survive a day.

[@SuperOlds88]

I agree 100%.

[@oscarrlee18]

Frank Burns why waste such beautiful creatures such as polar bears and whales on Detroit when there is 7-11

[@user-lg8hc4ub9p]

اعتقد راحو للفلسطين دولة محتلة

[@xucthclu]

Well, I've been exposed to an ever growing awareness of benefits of ketogenic eating and a diet of mostly animal products, and am trying to spread the word. There are several websites and project in spreading the word, but most people don't listen, because the dogma they grew up with is ingrained so deeply that it cannot be budged (vegetarians and vegans are the saddest case).

[@nurlyla]

very informative

[@chena3]

cool old film thanx

[@annwaine2881]

Sounds interesting, I'll research it on the web, thanks.

[@palmapanfu]

yes we are. in fact, my tribe lvives in Siberia (Russia/Asia) which is right across the bering straight. we have many legends of our men capturing the Yupik women from St.Lawrence Island, Alaska. The Inuit and Yupik and Kallaalit(? dont know proper name)(Greenland Inuit) all came over from Siberia and Athabascans also came from our land. We share common ancestors with Native Americans and Inuit.

[@davidguzman8243]

chaoky Hi What is the name of your tribe?

[@eskimomammoth7100]

I'm yupik. They say we have ancestors across the sea. Even found one of relatives who came from Russia, found out about it with 23andme

[@xucthclu]

As you watched the vid, I believe you noticed they ate the whole seal - liver, brain, eyes and all. Organ meats are pretty much the most nutrient dense foods (especially liver), thus, they get more vitamins than most people eating a diet that consists of lean muscle meats and vegetables. The only vitamin they may be getting very little is vitamin E and vitamin C, but there's not a large need for vit C; not sure about E. Hope that clears it up. If there are more questions, feel free to ask.

[@hensonlaura]

Lots of vitamin C in seal meat, was said in another video similar to this one...

[@JasonSmith-oo2vo]

What qualifies you as an expert?

[@palmapanfu]

yes. all indigenous people in America and my Chukchi people, we took showers in hot springs and steambaths in special lodges.

[@ernestberry-songsrestored5637]

Incredible film, Thank you. so much to say but this is not the place. I cant help felling that was as good as it got for the amazing eskimo people. It seemed like a fair balance between the "modern" and the primary cultured. So desperately sad how the corporate hungry ghost took over. These people as many others had the deep connection to the soul of the world and all its beautiful and tough lessons and lived a deeper life. We still have much to learn from them. Many contempory cultures seem like lost hollow souls constantly devouring in order to fill a space that knows no end. But all things have a season so who knows.

[@2000coco]

Are there any Inuit still living this way or do they all live in modern housing now? So much smartness and ingenuity with their old way way living and surviving the Artic. Hope it's been passed down to the younger generation.

[@Slim-_-DooDoo]

2000coco we Living In modern since 1950's In Greenland

[@mesatop5]

Don't forget the Yupik!

[@stlsilverfox2292]

And yet we in America have SAFE SPACES and COUNSELING at colleges, when someone has to listen to someone else speak, they do not agree with. You can see why this is humorous.

[@kevinmathewson4272]

lol. Inuit culture acknowledges that the human spirit is complex and emotionally rich. When you were troubled you went to a mentor or village elder and you aired your thoughts. We have therapy now in the developed world because most of us work all week and never see our neighbors. We have no tribe or community to confide in, so we pay someone to listen and reflect back what they hear.

[@ohot0]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and educating us about your people.Did you notice my utube name is an unuit name?

[@annwaine2881]

Of course! What am I thinking? No processed food, no sugar (I presume) and none of the junk we put into our bodies today. Even my younger self in the 1950's, brought up on stodgy over-cooked post-war food, was healthier than most kids today.

[@fennecfox2]

Yeah I find it really sad. I actually got really sick more than once off of grocery store food and my whole digestion track swelled up and shut down. Also have been anemic more times than I can count. Its not normal. I was eating all the right stuff too, but it turned on me. I decided to base my diet on diets like these in the videos and now feel almost 100% better. No longer anemic, I now dont feel dizzy constantly. My chronic tooth pain and gum disease went away. Its not the sugary and obvious unhealthy food that I am afraid of, its the deceptive...so called healthy food (or what they say is healthy) that is the most damaging to people I think. Diets today are very acidic and void of nutrients. We live in a generation where kids and adults alike either eat nothing but sugar and junk food, or they eat ice cubes and water, and must take so many suppliments (or pills). I was so much healthier even in the 80s when our family had good wholesome meals everyday. Nothing fancy, but good gentle and solid meals.

[@gillaybhutia6917]

This people are testimony that human don't required to destroy the planet for survival. We can do it with bare minimum. Human needs can be fulfilled but not greed.

[@palmapanfu]

no there was a way of bathing (at least for our people) in the hot springs and they would also make lodges and have hot steambaths.... if you dont clean yourslef you'd be very sick and our people were always very healthy. and there's no huge difference in Yupik,Inuit and Chukchi lifestyle.

[@ryanwolverine47]

Is he the same narrator of the Ten Commandments movie?

[@bernieabuan1309]

I find this Awesome . . .

[@robrich8294]

Life is more exciting constantly having to succeed in hunting and fishing. Food is much healthier to eat compared to modern refined flour and white sugar.

[@one_up907]

True a man in our village was 120 years old and he still sang and danced, he'd come to our school drum for us and sing and show us dances, he'd walk a lot of the time and Carried water in 5 gallon containers.

[@robrich8294]

@@one_up907 Your lucky living in a village as people sharing and caring is essential in our modernized world. Group gatherings about health and various concerns about nature is priceless. Here where I reside in Maine we people have families yet nearly everyone is segregated from each other by listening to governments and being brainwashed on TV with news showing modern corrupt pharmaceutical companies backed by medical doctors to give the false impression they care and prescribe artificial medicine when natural foods and medicinal plants pervaded before this modern era. Even people living in cities are isolated in like single family apartments as sharing is a odd commodity. The majority thrive on financial strength with weak characters. Money demonstrates counterfeit fronts to others with no explanation to its true value or intentions. This is why I love true aboriginal ways of life and traditions. Being innovative and creative noticing whale as well as all sea mammals along with oily fish insulate the body and protect us from the dangers of hypothermia coming on as fast. Also knowing all sea mammals having omega 3 oils in them is superior nutrition compared to modern inferior nutrition. They are light years apart. Not sure if you heard of this guy at all but the best evidence is a book written by Weston A Price evolved all around indigenous cultures eating native traditional foods had better teeth and immune to dental caries. Nutrition that is modernized ruins children’s teeth and facial appearance as well as changes your behaviors. Plus most people are not as strong or physically fit either. His written work: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is a game changer as Price traveled all over the world studying primitive indigenous people back in the 1920’s & 30’s. One chapter was devoted about the Inuits in Northern Canada and Alaska. So what is your heritage? I have Polish,Irish and Native American. In 2-4 weeks I’ll know what percentage of Native American I have with Ancestry DNA. According to my first cousin he said we are from the Paugussett Tribe and as I researched are a small small grouping. Just stick to your traditional foods as you’ll be much better off. I’d love to try whale some day and other sea mammals. Great health site too in case your unfamiliar: www.westonaprice.org

[@eskimoinuit5457]

I like this

[@nurdinafandy6581]

Verry interesting

[@annwaine2881]

I'm not sure we are actually recovering.

[@ice-cold_3469]

Ann Waine not tell we shut the school system down and teach only traditional ways. atleast for maybe 7 generations. then we will feel back to natural life. but its never gonna happen,

[@patrickallen4120]

I like the tropics! Bora Bora, tahiti!

[@ohot0]

Sorry about the spelling,i mean Inuit.

[@JM-un6mk]

Looks like Lake harbour, Nunavut

[@user-bx1vz5ql2h]

神奇的Eskimo~cool

[@xucthclu]

There's a lot of controversy surrounding it. As a starter resource, I suggest you watch the movie Fat Head (look it up on youtube). Feel free to let me know if you're unclear on something and need more information. Glad to help.

[@WavelengthstvBlogspotAu]

Thats a very ignorant statement. Id like to see how often you would shower in the freezing cold.

[@jonnydanger7181]

Amazing humans they are 👍

[@dayi0425]

You Sir are an amazing human too

[@dayi0425]

Thank you for liking my comment

[@MrTeacoffee]

What the fuck they just pulled a beluga whale out of a net, 1943 is a long time ago.

[@ice-cold_3469]

Mr.TeaCoffee in eskimo the word is goobyuck. and whale is killaluyuck

[@palmapanfu]

That is right.... you are like a distant relative to me :)

[@burakayan1429]

most succesfull hunters

[@palmapanfu]

It is?Cool. Never knew. I don't know any inuit words or the language at all. Although it is distantly related to Chukchi... I cannot understand any Inuit and my Chukchi isn't fluent either.

[@annwaine2881]

OK thanks, they all survived in a harsh environment anyway!

[@karlpetergeisler8368]

My kind :-)

[@hensonlaura]

Re: Washing, I moved to an extreme desert climate, & there is no BO here. I think that type of bacteria just doesn't thrive here. Maybe it's the same in the arctic?

[@originalredneckgirl]

5:51.... looked like a dolphin to me

[@patrickallen4120]

Baluca!

[@nguyenhuythang8379]

1943 ?

[@joseraposo6762]

When did the shift happen? Here they wear inuit clothes, now normal clothes and it hasnt been 100 yrs

[@lil_weasel219]

when the westerners came. over time

[@arcticman1522]

Seriously some comments are judging people from 70 years ago? 🤣

[@fightcha20]

are they related to asian?

[@eskimomammoth7100]

Yes. Like a far off branch. I'm yupik.

[@libertadamina5527]

Yes, they came from Asia, same as all native people from this continent called America.

[@Demonte202]

They related to native American

[@woopsme]

***** Yes they are

[@inullarik]

Dixie No we are not related to them in any way shape or form

[@newheart1040]

It's the same Mongolian people's

[@libertadamina5527]

They are native Américans. Our ancestors came from Mongolia and Siberia to populares all continent.

[@zephaniahwmarion7311]

They don't need matches if they use a magnifying glass to start their fire.

[@Michelle-Eden]

Because when it's dark for six months the invisible sun put forth great heat.

[@karlpetergeisler8368]

Yes we are related to asians :-)

[@xucthclu]

Why would they suffer from not eating vegetables?

[@ice-cold_3469]

xucthclu our food was extremely rich with fat plus we had berries and various sea shell creatures

[@mrgangelino]

que paso chicharroneros, aaaaaaaaa

[@xucthclu]

Quite likely so. You may still improve your health by, at the very least, cutting out the sugars and processed food and using animal fats in cooking instead of vegetable oils. The whole modern nutrition field was royally screwed over, mostly thanks to a couple of faulty researches, media hype and government statements and regulations in US (other countries jumped on the bandwagon). It's only about today that it's recovering from the damage.

[@karlpetergeisler8368]

Yes we are related to asians :-) i'm not lying big smile for you :-)

[@tetaarijanagomez8242]

WHAT HOW DID I CAME HERE OMG

[@not2tees]

Relax - we are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE bhwuhahuhahuhahah. Hotel Arcticfornia.

[@porgevang4554]

Klara Djordjevic hate when ppl said how i got here and how did i end up here. stop

[@cristyramirez7329]

not2tees. They're freezing it up in the Hotel Articforna Anytime of year, they are freezing here.

[@dominicirksuk5312]

world is always turning...

[@fredreddies1220]

They probably have a pizza hut and McDonald’s by now

[@one_up907]

We don't, we have 1 store I'm not sure if other villages have any.

[@pinz2022]

As I gather, the steambath is a great way to clean off when you don't have running water. Much better than having to heat up bathwater one kettlefull at a time. Although I guess you do need SOME hot water to wash your hair in (unless you use a bucket of concentrated wee-wee like the Greenland ladies used to).

[@ehailstone]

Why not flour, suger, tea, coffee , salt, cloth, rope, knifes......tradeing posts can get you anything your willing to work hard for. WWII changed everything.

[@ice-cold_3469]

yup thank the canadian govt for only giving one company a complete monopoly in the arctic.

[@xx3A1]

kkk the dog have hungry

[@MlpPh0enixWhisper]

What a pure kind people with nature most people would freeze to death in days the aboriginal lived here for hundreds of years. One can imagine the native Americans south might of developed if we're not molested by greed capitalists looking for gold like the black hills

[@roygbiv330]

the first woman's song sounds asian or arabian.

[@casparholmmehri2011]

not at all

[@kemalertug2784]

yes Turkey as strain

[@Slim-_-DooDoo]

roygbiv330 Nope not even close

[@dominicirksuk5312]

hahahahahaha your wrong woman.

[@hensonlaura]

And just as grating to the ear! As varied, sophisticated and beautiful as Chinese culture was (before being destroyed by CCP) the music was awful.

[@user-yb7xo3wk5l]

Я тут был и вода салёная пил.

[@giuliano2583]

they eat raw fish like if it would be a chocolate bar...unbelieveable

[@Michelle-Eden]

It's much better than chocolate!

[@frank1847]

They did fine no veg all meat and fat .

[@poulhansen2415]

+frank1847 . You forgot berries.

[@dominicirksuk5312]

& blue berries.

[@willemwolthuis5432]

The liver of animals provided the vitamins. That is why the liver of seals was cut up and shared by all members of a group. before any other butchering happened.

[@zephaniahwmarion7311]

The Eskimos eat raw fish because they don't have wood to burn to cook it..they should make a solar oven

[@arcticman1522]

We made stone pots and heather was used for fire to cook food.

[@Michelle-Eden]

Because the vitamin C they get from raw fish is not needed by the human body, and because solar ovens work great in the dark.

[@hensonlaura]

@@Michelle-Eden weird that your nice enough to inform, but are snotty & passive aggressive 🤔

[@mohdsarizaladnan4507]

Why they did not cooking first.... They eat without cook how its taste..😷😷😷

[@rbebler91]

They ate meat raw. Cooking was not available there. There was no wood to make a fire. Their thinking was, "eat raw or starve." Hmm...

[@annwaine2881]

I was thinking they might lack some vitamins?

[@ice-cold_3469]

Ann Waine fish meat berries muscles is all the vitamins we needed back in the day.

[@daveshen0880]

Nope. All they eat food contains vitamins.

[@nativoplantas2003]

Rachel Ann nick Mathew Albert Alaska native American love u

[@ter890]

They probably did, except they didn't film it.

[@ohot0]

"Eskimo" is what the native ppl(athabascan) would call the inuit,it means "eater of raw meat." We should call them "Inuit" it means "The ppl". No they didn't bathe.You try it at minus50.Everyone smelled the same so it's not noticeable.Ok no more preaching.

[@douglucas6030]

im Cherokee and am not related to klinkits inuits or hottentots

[@daveshen0880]

There is no letter s in inuit word. *Inuit.

[@زنكي]

Healthy food, wheat is making mankind sick.

[@kk6aw]

Count me out of raw anything

[@douglucas6030]

the inuits are decendents of and related to Asians who migrated across the bearing sea land bridge

[@daveshen0880]

There is no letter s in inuit word.

[@hargun09]

Nice..but doesnt look like they ever took shower

[@danielchavez8701]

How do they shower and I bet they stink pretty bad !

[@one_up907]

They stay clean we understood being dirty makes you sick, mainly just sitting in water or a sponge bath

[@user-cd8yw8vt5b]

Дикари каменного века.

[@billyfranklin85]

Shoot a swimming polar bear that had ZERO chance to get away. Real noble, honorable stewards of the land.... Give me a facking break.....

[@tricko321]

You don't want them to have a chance dumbass the whole idea is to kill the bear for food and skins ..

[@one_up907]

They hang food outside and it's dangerous when a bear gets too close to the village especially when its hungry, also nothing on that bear will be wasted.

[@hensonlaura]

They should just let polar bears overrun the village and eat them all - as is the bear's natural instinct? It is good to have empathy, but common sense is also necessary.

[@peace-corner]

這就是一個族群的生存方式，值得尊敬，值得學習。地球環境的變化，來自於自以為是、自以為現代又進步的其他人類！而不是這些數千或數萬年來，一直與生態系統保持平衡的因紐特人或世界上任何原住民族群⋯。

[@jackfisher9833]

The way this is filmed looks so staged and fake.. I know there were Eskimos, but this looks more like hey walk this way and look that way.. Seriously. I dont fall for this. They hired some indians to dress like that and made a good fake. I seen eskimo videos before and it look nothing like that. Most vids from back then are fake.