Il popolo Inuit

The family structure is customarily flexible, oftentimes including a married couple, their children, and any spouses of their sons or daughters. Sometimes parents of the married couple and any unmarried siblings live in a household as well. Marriage for Inuit women happens usually around puberty, and for men, around the time when they prove themselves to be adequate and efficient hunters. Inuit society is not strictly monogamous and includes open marriages, polygamy, divorce, and remarriage (World Book 1996: 356b). While there is a strong sense of gender roles, it does not define the culture nor is it absolute. Men are traditionally hunters, and women raise the children and take care of the household. It is advised and common that all members of society be knowledgeable in both male and female roles.

Inuit groups are self-governing with a moral code of unwritten, traditional, rules of conduct, most importantly being that each person involves oneself daily to contribute to the groups’ survival. If conflict arises it is usually settled through peaceful tests of strength and courage. If an individual is threatening to the overall wellbeing and safety of the group, they will be banished. Because people cannot survive alone in the Arctic, banishment usually means death.

it is quite an achievement that a culture has lasted for over a thousand years and stayed so in tuned with their original customs, traditions, beliefs, and way of living.