ls raw enabled the Inuit to get large quantities of vitamins and minerals, which are stored in the animal tissue. The traditional cooking process had destroyed much of the vitamins in the meat. Meat eaten a "quaq" gives a kind of ruch feeling and produces a great amount of body heat. The Inuit cooking process with meat was boiling - like when you make soups or stews. This diet has been credited to the Inuit health and longevity and many other groups that settled in the North adapted this diet. They avoided scurvy by eating raw meat, which is packed with Vitamin C. The also would eat the "rumen" contents of the caribou, and organ meats of sea mammals, which is also full of vitamin C.Some Inuit today, hunt for a living, but this is what they refer to as "career hunting", which is regulated by territorial law. Part of the kills goes to the hunter's family and friends and then the rest of it goes to export to the South. The hunting lifestyle is tied to Inuit culture - it used to be okay that everyone could hunt. The Inuit traveled in groups of forty or fifty people, including children. Each group would have about ten to fifteen hunters. They had no chief, but a leader, usually the most experienced would take charge of the hunt. The Inuit used to hunt for food and tools. Today they only hunt for food and also money to pay for bills, taxes, and rent.The Inuit followed a way of life that is different with Indian population south of the "treeline". They lived to the North which is the Arctic and Sub-Arctic region. The Inuits did not move to the South along mountain chains or along the Mackenzie River. They did not do this because these Southern regions were already inhabited with the "Dene" and other Indian groups. These groups of Indians were very aggressive when they were defending their territories, and the Inuit avoided them by staying to the North. The best known Inuit settlement is one found in the central portion of the C...
