Arctic anthropologist Niobe Thompson takes a journey across the North and a millennium back in time, tracing the origins of the modern Inuit in an extraordinary Arctic Odyssey from Siberia to Greenland. What he discovers along the way overturns our stereotypes of the "peaceful Eskimo" and sheds new light on the first meeting of Asiatic and European settlers in the New World.
Learning Questions
1. Who are the Inuit and where do they live?
2. What do the Inuit hunt? How do they hunt?
3. What is the narrator of this film trying to discover?
4. Where in Scandinavia does the narrator go? Why does he go there?
5. What is your favorite part of this film?
6. Why do you think the filmmaker decided to make this film?
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