Listen to part of a lecture in an anthropology class. Okay, we\'re continuing today with our discussion of the Inuit people of North America. We finished up covering their early history through the 18th century, right? So let\'s move on to the 19th century. Now, of the different groups that are considered part of the Inuit people。 you remember I mentioned the Mackenzie Inuit last time. The Mackenzie Inuit are the ones who live up in northwestern most Canada In the 19th century, the most important settlement of the Mackenzie Inuit was kitigaaryuit. The settlement of kitigaaryuit, well, it was actually a village. Archeological evidence indicates that kitigaaryuit was central to the history and culture of the Mackenzie Inuit. It was located on the coast of Arctic Canada, and had an annual whale hunt. In the 19th century，it became a trading center for trade between the Mackenzie Inuit and the euro Americans. But even though kitigaaryuit holds such an important position in Mackenzie Inuit history. we don\'t actually have a thorough understanding of what life was like there back then. What we do know about ninth century life in kindergarten comes from three kinds of data. One of them is from ethnohistoric sources. which are written accounts, documents that were written back in the 19th century. Another type of data is from the archeological evidence I mentioned. So where else could we get data? Any ideas? Interviews with modern Mackenzie Inuit people they must know about their own history. Yes, interviews, oral histories, these capture the knowledge stories and legends that have been passed down through the generations. The oral tradition is an important source of information. It provides unique insights about Mackenzie Inuit life. So it\'s good that they are finally being recorded now, better late than never although we all know memories can get blurred over time. But getting back to the ethnohistoric documents unfortunately, there aren\'t many written documents from the time of the kindergarten settlement and many of them have, well, limitations. limitations? Well, for example, some blue Euro American explorers recorded details of their interactions with the Mackenzie Inuit in the area but these explorers never physically stepped foot inside the actual kitigaaryuit settlement. Their documents provide us with some idea of what life was probably like near kindergarten at the time. But Well, another example, some documents don\'t get the dates when events occurred. Other documents contain inconsistencies and one had the location of the whale hunt completely wrong. One important set of journals and letters that is still being studied was written back in the late 1800s and early 1900s by a man named Isaac stringer during several yearly visits to kitigaaryuit. There are a number of reasons why stringers documents are significant. His notes were full of details. He wrote daily about the events happening around him descriptions of the Inuit hunting whales from their kayaks descriptions of Inuit rituals and practices, such as how they dried and stored food for the winter and oh, oh, a whole lot more how they decisions what their houses were like. Sounds like you wrote about a lot. Yes, but here\'s what\'s particularly important. Stringer was able to describe an extremely important transitional period in Inuit society right after large numbers of American whaling ships and sailors had arrived on the scene. By looking at his journals over time, we can even see evidence of their impact. For instance, stringer wrote in 1900 that the Inuit were using kayaks to hunt whales as they had been all along. But when stringer returned in 1909 they had switched to using Euro American style boats. a pretty dramatic change. It doesn\'t appear that stringer exaggerated anything his notes are reliable, consistent and compatible with things we know from other sources and he wrote it all from right there in kitigaaryuit not not from somewhere else years later looking back on his memories it\'s too bad that he never visited during the winter though.