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Xkay Aky - 6 years ago

exellent merci dany

Dionisio Pavese - 6 years ago

Aforismi rossanesi

Wheres-my Angels - 6 years ago

The best of ancient technology.

eye - 6 years ago

modern technology create more issues than solving.

TheSnoopoff - 6 years ago

Would be nice to know what they are talking about.

Raven - 6 years ago

Schönes Video!Danke füs Hochladen.

Gary Chynne - 6 years ago

my father was a policeman in labrador about 70 years ago. my dad said eskimos were beautiful people and he did not mean pretty. he said he never saw eskimo children cry because they were always with there mothers. i see what he meant now.
wonderful. thank yew gare

First Last - 6 years ago

does anybody recognize the type of rock on that beach?

Daniel Gorchev - 6 years ago

Bush Japs

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fullstrutn - 6 years ago

That sure looks like a lot sturdier frame than Wally Cleavers ''mess' they built in the garage

Ba d Neighbour - 6 years ago

Would it not be made from whale bone in the past and not wood?

Eduard Ortega - 7 years ago

WTF??? Como pueden comer pescado crudo................

mesagoat - 7 years ago

one of the most beautiful videos on all of YouTube, period.

thornwarbler - 7 years ago

Wonderful .............thanks for ihis

David Sears - 7 years ago

I've eaten WAY too much salmon sushi to not get hungry around the 30 minute mark....

TIMFO inc. - 7 years ago

@12;43.. E-Ssi-Ghy-Mo said Hel-Re-Go ? It means that "Are You trying to do? Korean direct only used in the South Korea near yellow sea and Jeju island.

doncarlo5 - 7 years ago

but fishing ...they are damn good at it ....

doncarlo5 - 7 years ago

they don't know hammer .... using stone-tool ....hmmm.... stone age ....

Szabolcs Bazsika - 7 years ago

Egyáltalán vannak még Eszkimok?

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Szabolcs Bazsika - 7 years ago

Egyaltalan vannak még Eszkimok?

Viggo - 7 years ago

lol

perry merrill - 6 years ago

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John Hsu - 7 years ago

it`s a perfect view of the humen history . thank you.

Rusty Martell - 7 years ago

Those are really cool knives that the women are using, wow. And people comment on how they eat the salmon raw.......think sushi!? It just comes with herbs and spices.

CHip Hailstone - 6 years ago

Ulu......''Ooo-Loo'' , Womens Knifes.

Paul Teather - 7 years ago

I studied the Netsilik people through an anthropological perspective, and feel it's safe to assume that the people in the film are Netsilik actors enlisted by the National Film Board of Canada for this production. Their background is truly a story of human hardiness honed through hundreds, and even thousands of years of practising the skills needed for survival in one of harshest environments on Earth. I also hand build kayaks in the Eastern Arctic design, but in cedar strip, epoxy, and fibreglasss and can appreciate the skill of the traditional craft.

shapur - 7 years ago

you can not act this kind of knowledge, since it takes many years of doing and experience to achieve the skill, with guidance..

Tusk Bilasimo - 7 years ago

Looking at their hands I doubt they are actors, they bare witness to a rugged lifestyle

Shane K - 7 years ago

I think these guys were the real deal, not actors, but there's no proof either way probably, it's still beautiful.

SpiritBear12 - 7 years ago

That's one patient mother, trying to sew a muckluck boot while her kid is climbing all over her at the same time.

AD Chong - 7 years ago

SpiritBear12 ，

SpiritBear12 - 7 years ago

+Shane K
LOL, I know, I sometimes bump into a few others I've seen before.

Shane K - 7 years ago

That's cool, all the bazillions of videos and we watch the same ones.

SpiritBear12 - 7 years ago

+Shane K
Yep

Shane K - 7 years ago

Don't I recognize you from Rick Gores channel? Hi

larrys92120 - 7 years ago

I wish you had put a translation in the video for those of that don't speak eskimo

sami14310 - 7 years ago

larrys92120 it's probably not good for children to see the translation !

Paul TheSkeptic - 8 years ago

Man, I just want to fly up there with some hammers and plumbobs and hacksaws and all manner of proper tools to give them and tell them that fish tastes a lot better when you cook it.

Bullfrogz100 - 6 years ago

Why don't you mind your own business with your tools and your arrogance?

BRANN I - 6 years ago

thats how every tribe, race or people got ensnared in the SYSTEM. Within 1-2 generations people can go from being totally self reliant to not knowing their arse from their elbow. Its really quite upsetting actually.

Mathieu Trentesaux - 7 years ago

But you did, Paul! This film is 50 years old! They now live in the comfort and superiority of the no superstition you believe in. And maybe they have taken off that stupid smile they had in doing so amusing things at their ridiculously slow paces, so little rentable!

stau ffap - 7 years ago

It does have the disadvantage though, that as soon as you get hooked to western tools and forget the old way of doing things, then you will become dependant on our way of life. That way a lot of knowledge and tradition can be lost quite quickly and it's very likely, that they will become less and less self reliant. Sooner or later they will then be forced to take a job and become like us and then there will be no way back for them.

TeamDiscus - 7 years ago

You implied that you wanted to change their lifestyle by teaching them to cook the fish. Il take that as a joke, but still. It hinted an attitude.

Its true, nature is raw. And healthcare is good, for the one who can afford it. That is what we should have offered on “first contact”. Not to tell them that they're way of life is wrong, and that they're beliefs are wrong. They should have had the chance to make that decision themselves. Science is good. It helps us to understand our surroundings, how it works. But modern society is not “all harmony with nature and stories around the campfire” either. We are facing a lot of problems, which we happily ignore.

Paul TheSkeptic - 7 years ago

+TeamDiscus Well, I never said that I wanted to fly up their with money and jobs and show them how to do that then buy a house with all the major modern appliances so they could be like Ozzie and Harriet. I would give them things that they'd, in all likelihood, already be familiar with and know how to use. And if not it's no big trick.

Also, there's a dark side to living such an isolated existence. They can die of easily preventable diseases or live with the pain of parasites. It's not all harmony with nature and stories around the campfire. The advantages of modernity are vast. Modern medicine alone gives us many more years. Modern science wakes us up from living with constant superstition.

TeamDiscus - 7 years ago

It sure would be handy, and comfortabel. What I mean is that “we” in “modern society” often view indigenous people as primitive and that they're life is a struggle and that “we” should help dem. And sure some modern tools would be usefull. But the fact is that these people are perfectly adapted to their environment, they use local materials, they hunt and fish for the amount of food they need (not more). They live in balance with their surroundings. Unlike us in modern society. What I mean is that, in reality, they do a better job at living on this earth than “we” do. They can make a masterpiece using rocks, why should they depend on hammers?

Paul TheSkeptic - 7 years ago

+TeamDiscus Why? You like building things with rocks instead of hammers?

TeamDiscus - 7 years ago

That's just because you don't know any better.

Eric Feckner - 8 years ago

I was born in rong time,this is truly a amazing connection with nature and family, beautiful way of life!!!!!!as I sit typing on my smart phone, how sad is that!!

CHip Hailstone - 6 years ago

Sell it, buy a grubstake and live free.. Possessions are a burden when you carry all of them. You dont need much to make a good living, be happy and healthy...