Visiting The Eskimos - Smith Sound Eskimos, 1930s

Donald MacMillan expedition to Greenland in the 1930s.To purchase a clean DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at: questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

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  • @BillSikes.
    @BillSikes.6 жыл бұрын

    I love the Eskimo, I've always been fascinated by their way of life, I think it's a great loss that their old nomadic way's are now lost, all in the name of modernity

  • @goognamgoognw6637

    @goognamgoognw6637

    4 жыл бұрын

    every word you said, i feel the same.

  • @badas45

    @badas45

    3 жыл бұрын

    There are many that have not forgotten the old ways...now they just have cell phones and four wheelers, I have spent time in Alaska and someday I hope to return.

  • @BillSikes.

    @BillSikes.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@badas45 Most of them wouldn't know one end of an Igloo from the other, they're settled in houses now with all the mod cons of any American household, yeah sure they still hunt and fish, but none of them wander the Ice anymore living in Igloos like they did in the past, it's a great shame I think, a way of life tens of thousands of years old, irrevocably gone within a few of generations, as with all indigenous peoples, they lived correctly, in complete harmony and balance with their environment, we don't, within a few. Hundred years everything will be gone, plundered and sold for a profit, all in the name of progress and civilisation

  • @c.s.hayden3022
    @c.s.hayden30227 жыл бұрын

    I've seen a few of these documentaries showing Eskimos/Inuits in their native ways and they always seem a lot happier than you would expect, and it doesn't all seem staged. I think just being able to do a bunch of things, whether here by necessity or solely personal interest, creates a meaningful direction that overpowers any external misery.

  • @daveshen0880

    @daveshen0880

    Жыл бұрын

    *Inuit. The word INUITS is wrong. Nobody put letter s in inuit word.

  • @youtubecommentsguy9805

    @youtubecommentsguy9805

    2 күн бұрын

    Its bc they live how your biology is designed to. In small designated groups of close societal circle.

  • @lasamericas2919
    @lasamericas29193 жыл бұрын

    what an extraordinary film, absolutely beautiful! many thanks to Donald MacMillan for making this film bringing to the world this wonderful people and culture, and thanks to travelfilmarchive for making it available!

  • @suzanabrams1
    @suzanabrams19 жыл бұрын

    Such warm, friendly expressions. A contented people. Loved this.

  • @dvranish
    @dvranish8 жыл бұрын

    It was a very good film for me. The people of that era were hard workers and quite skilled.

  • @ClaimsAdjusteroftheYear
    @ClaimsAdjusteroftheYear3 жыл бұрын

    I've watched several of these docs but still have yet to see how they bathe or use the facilities. Idk why I am obsessed with this lol.

  • @judymotto7338
    @judymotto73383 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful people

  • @puiteichawngthu3082
    @puiteichawngthu30825 жыл бұрын

    I really love the eskimos and always wonder where the new generation are now.I love the igloos and everything about them which reminds me my childhood days when we study about the different types of houses and Igloos was my favourite till now😊.I still remember my childhood wish when I dream about eatings lots of ice creams if i were born as the eskimos.😀

  • @chmney2830

    @chmney2830

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your ancestors were probably eskimo who knows.

  • @MostPowerfulPMofIndia
    @MostPowerfulPMofIndia4 жыл бұрын

    Love them for their great strength

  • @not2tees
    @not2tees8 жыл бұрын

    As a tax payer and consumer and rent payer and so on, I have to admire their freedom and self-sufficiency, despite how dangerous their lives must be.

  • @zxyatiywariii8

    @zxyatiywariii8

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me too. I would miss the internet but not for long, if I could live somewhere, off the land and off the grid. Unfortunately, there's no land left on which to live free. . . And I can't afford to buy any. Even on BLM land (Bureau of Land Management) people can only live in one place for a month before they'll evict you.

  • @auveus5036

    @auveus5036

    9 ай бұрын

    "Unfortunately, there's no land left on which to live free". Can you elaborate on why this is, please?@@zxyatiywariii8

  • @cloudsrain8753
    @cloudsrain87535 жыл бұрын

    great window into the times

  • @alisonnorcross951
    @alisonnorcross9514 жыл бұрын

    So interesting. The old lady with her teeth ground down are still perfect.

  • @anacarpenter9254
    @anacarpenter9254 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful cinematography. Adaptation was as natural and instinctive many years ago. The mortality rate living in harsh conditions would have been devastating for families. The lifestyle change from then till now 2023. Are these people extinct?

  • @gin2x
    @gin2x Жыл бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @catherinemoore9534
    @catherinemoore95343 жыл бұрын

    💖

  • @doctorwest7535
    @doctorwest75354 жыл бұрын

    Where did the steel knife comes from?

  • @zxyatiywariii8

    @zxyatiywariii8

    4 жыл бұрын

    Usually by trade. There have been remote trading posts in the Arctic for a long time, where people can trade in furs for steel. However, some steel gets found washed up on the beach in summer, and they make use of that too. Edit: If this particular group had really never met anyone else before, they would have found their steel. But often, groups of people that are thought to have "never met outsiders" actually have met outsiders at some point in their history. Like the Tasaday tribe.

  • @Sifferlif

    @Sifferlif

    4 жыл бұрын

    Inuit got metal from meteorites, and would work that metal using cold forging

  • @BillSikes.

    @BillSikes.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Sifferlif Rubbish they traded stuff with Tribes south of the Artic Circle, they still do, I was in Toronto a few years ago and came across a little store selling Inuit stuff, such as the pelts of Wolf, Polarr Bear, and every other mammal found in the Artic, clothing made from animal skins, Spears Knives, elaborately carved bone, all kinds of stuff, one curious object caught my eye, it looked like a giant feather about 8ft tall propped up in the corner, I asked what it was, it turned out to be a piece of Baleen from a Whale, it was all so expensive tho, the polar bear skin was 5000 Canadian dollars, the shop was owned by by European Canadians, I wondered how much they paid the Inuit for it, I reckoned probably no more than a few hundred dollars, I left having brought nothing, I was saddened to be honest at how those people have been exploited by us Europeans, there old life of Nomadic freedom has gone and now there no different to us struggling to find enough Dollars to survive

  • @0mgskillz96

    @0mgskillz96

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@BillSikes. Hes not lying, Inuits had metal tools for centuries before contact with Europeans, the Inughuit (most northern Inut) used to cold forge tools from the Cape York Meteorite until the colonizer Robert E. Peary stole it and sold it to American Natural History Museum in 1883, the "Central/Copper Eskimo" made copper tools by sawing and grinding then sharpening and hardening them by cold-hammering, the Greenland Eskimo exploited three sources for iron; meteorites, native iron from the basalts of Disco Bay, and iron spikes in driftwood, and the Copper-mine River copper was carried to Greenland in exchange for iron from the eastern Eskimo…

  • @dongarrett6228
    @dongarrett6228 Жыл бұрын

    Please someone put music to this... "Queen" van halen...

  • @stlsilverfox2292
    @stlsilverfox22926 жыл бұрын

    Eskimos are who populated the entire planet. When they took to the seas.

  • @yoso585
    @yoso5854 жыл бұрын

    The Era of the Beginning of the End.

  • @user-ff8ce6mj5q
    @user-ff8ce6mj5q2 жыл бұрын

    I think they were free from The war

  • @rohmingthangabawlte8996
    @rohmingthangabawlte89963 жыл бұрын

    Eskimo , Cheyene . Apache .. America rama awm hmasa te diktak an Ni..

  • @customwoodtech2355
    @customwoodtech23555 жыл бұрын

    Where did they get knives?

  • @ROCdevelopments

    @ROCdevelopments

    5 жыл бұрын

    Seal-Mart

  • @patrickallen4120

    @patrickallen4120

    5 жыл бұрын

    They forge them from iron ore! Smelt them and shape them! Then they attach a exotic ivory handle!

  • @0mgskillz96

    @0mgskillz96

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Inughuit (most northern Inut) used to cold forge tools from the Cape York Meteorite until Robert E. Peary stole it and sold it to American Natural History Museum in 1883, the "Central/Copper Eskimo" made copper tools by sawing and grinding then sharpening and hardening them by cold-hammering, the Greenland Eskimo exploited three sources for iron; meteorites, native iron from the basalts of Disco Bay, and iron spikes in driftwood, and the Copper-mine River copper was carried to Greenland in exchange for iron from the eastern Eskimo…

  • @user-03-gsa3

    @user-03-gsa3

    Жыл бұрын

    @@0mgskillz96 That's incredible.

  • @MrMarcodarko

    @MrMarcodarko

    6 ай бұрын

    STOLE THEM FROM THE VIKINGS WHO DIED ON THE COLD LAND

  • @bbruce995
    @bbruce9952 жыл бұрын

    did no one ask, where are their bone knives? why are they using steel? where did they get the steel? who's technology are they using? its all high technology, to catch the seal, or whale, and bring it back to shore to skin it... and they were called savages?

  • @supercruiser4925
    @supercruiser49254 жыл бұрын

    The Eskimos should have never taken the settlement in Canada now they lost their nomadic skills and obtained only cigarettes and alcohol.

  • @MrMarcodarko

    @MrMarcodarko

    6 ай бұрын

    I am native and watching these videos are hard because inuit today are all drunks and drug addicts they leave the north for a shallow homless life of booze and drugs. I dont understand why, It is so sad, But romancing inuit is a fake image

  • @reniatkosoczka9922
    @reniatkosoczka99228 жыл бұрын

    its so strange. How do they wash themself?, what do they eat?, what do they do?. Do children go to school?. Do they have tv, radio, cell phones, are any hospitals itd. I am so curious how they live in 21 century. Its so weird. Anybody knows tge answers to my questions?

  • @megmcfoo7680

    @megmcfoo7680

    7 жыл бұрын

    Today no one lives in that settlement. They moved south to where the conditions are slightly less harsh. The main settlement of the area, Qaanaaq, has a small store where they can buy modern food and items, but still mostly live on whale, seal, etc. TVs are quite common in houses, as well as showers and cookers, and the younger generations have mobile phones. The nearest hospital is miles away and can only be accessed by helicopter, and the area has one school (not sure about the surrounding areas). Hope this is what you asked haha:D

  • @Slim-_-DooDoo

    @Slim-_-DooDoo

    7 жыл бұрын

    reniatko Soczka im Greenland, back In the Day's Greenlandians eat whale and seal and fish and totoq, No they don't go to school but They Got learn how to hount, Yeah they wash In Watter not sea, they Don't have tv and radio back In the Day's, but we have every thing now

  • @libertadamina5527

    @libertadamina5527

    4 жыл бұрын

    None of those, thats why they were happy. After technology of white people arrived, they had diseases, alcohol issues and cultural shock that caused them psychologycal issues.

  • @jadeenelving247

    @jadeenelving247

    Жыл бұрын

    The US government forced my mom to change. Abused for speaking her Yupik language at Wrangle Institute. That's part of the reason my ancestors lost their Culture and their freedom taken away. It's History no one batted an eye at🤬

  • @auveus5036

    @auveus5036

    9 ай бұрын

    mostly because of their unnatural diet is why they started degenerating.@@libertadamina5527

  • @josemurrietaluisorocio3140
    @josemurrietaluisorocio31407 жыл бұрын

    pobres gentes ooh mi dios pobres bebes

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann89697 жыл бұрын

    Too bad the ice melting is going to ruin there most ancient and humble traditions of cultures

  • @dominicirksuk5312

    @dominicirksuk5312

    7 жыл бұрын

    whites made up, globle warming, too bad. not even, not an hair....

  • @matthewmann8969

    @matthewmann8969

    7 жыл бұрын

    Dominic Irksuk What do you mean?

  • @dominicirksuk5312

    @dominicirksuk5312

    7 жыл бұрын

    there is no globle warming, it's very,very cold, even now. in june. that's what I mean.

  • @anne-droid7739

    @anne-droid7739

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dominic, I truly hope you can still say that in 30 years.

  • @DinorwicSongwriter

    @DinorwicSongwriter

    5 жыл бұрын

    the curch already did that

  • @MrMarcodarko
    @MrMarcodarko6 ай бұрын

    uS UNUIT WORSHIP THE SPACE GOD aNNKUTRUUA.