Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik tribe of Inuit on King William Island, polar explorer Roald Amundsen became an expert igloo builder, even though at ...

The answer is of course, an igloo! 'Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in the frozen lands of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland.

However, igloos and Haida houses were winter shelters and longhouses ... The people in each culture that we have looked at made choices based on the environment around them. Inuit people had to learn ...

(Scene from Canada: A People's History, shot in Baker Lake) The Inuit oral history is particularly ... There is a fable of one old man who was left in an igloo with two dogs and little else ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an igloo? It would be pretty cold compared to the houses we live in now. Could you imagine living with over forty other people in one big ...

Inuit usually built their winter villages on ... a layer of snow formed in a single drift Almost any snow will work for an experienced igloo builder in a pinch, but the best kind is a deep layer ...