Inuksuit

1. Inuksuit
By: Jade Copeland

2. What is a Inuksuit?
A Inuksuit is a stone landmark built by humans.
It was used by the Inuit peoples of the Arctic.

3. What was the purpose?
The Inuksuit was used as a marker for
travel routes, fishing places, camps,
and hunting grounds.

4. Where are they found?
These structures are found from
Alaska, North Canada, all the
way to Greenland.

5. How they were used?
• Skilled Inuit hunters built Inuksuit to confuse
caribou into thinking that they were being
chased by many hunters. The Inuksuit were
placed strategically on the ground to capture
the caribou.

6. Where did the name come from?
The word Inuksuit means “ Human
being figures”.

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