Inuit culture under threat
Dec. 7th, 2011 09:05 amInuit lifestyle ‘to be wiped out’
An academic who spent a year living with an Inuit tribe in Greenland says their traditional way of life could be completely eroded in just 25 years.
Stephen Leonard, an anthropological linguist at Cambridge University in the UK, said he witnessed first-hand the declining culture of the Inugguit tribe, one of the Polar North’s last hunter-gatherer communities.
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An academic who spent a year living with an Inuit tribe in Greenland says their traditional way of life could be completely eroded in just 25 years.
Stephen Leonard, an anthropological linguist at Cambridge University in the UK, said he witnessed first-hand the declining culture of the Inugguit tribe, one of the Polar North’s last hunter-gatherer communities.
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