Ice nation. by Zuzana Valkova

The Inuit are aboriginal people who live in the Arctic regions. Many of them are in Canada, where is about 40,000 people, Alaska and Greenland. People call them Eskimos, but actually they prefer term Inuit. They have common language, of course there are some variants, and they have old rich culture. In the past they lived in seacoasts and tundra, where they hunted mainly sea animals. They lived in hard conditions, every day they had to fight against wind and snow, because they had houses made only of wood. Nowadays, some of them decided to leave and go live to bigger cities, but many still live there in the land of their fathers. Some of them are modern, they live in small villages and life is easier for them. But still not as easy as it should and could be. In arctic regions are no job opportunities, its undeveloped piece of land, they know that this part has potential richness, but they are not sure where exactly. The biggest chance to change this region is tourism. This part of the country is wild and dangerous and exactly this is temptations for many travelers and explorers. Not everyone has a good and enough education, so it's hard for them to compete with the rest of the world. There are still some who don't want to leave their traditional way of live and want to stay close to their culture. But this is time for changing, they have at least some political power, and for example Canadian government is trying to help them.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/sc_nm/inuit_dc;_ylt=AoiaXI7f6dTcdh24.kyRhHOs0NUE

by Zuzana Valkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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