Inuit Flashcards

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Q

Hey, you don’t have to be like that, I just wanted to talk.

A

Oye, no tienes que ponerte así, sólo quería platicar.

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Some Inuit from Alaska call themselves eskimos, but in other areas of the Inuit territory, that is rather an insult.

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Algunos Inuit de Alaska se llaman a sí mismos esquimales, pero en otras áreas del territorio Inuit, eso es más bien un insulto.

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Yes, it is one of the environments the most hostile in which has lived man. But the Inuit have been prospering there for thousands of years.

A

Sí, es uno de los ambientes más hostiles en los que ha vivido el hombre. Pero los Inuit llevan prosperando ahí durante miles de años.

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Since the agriculture in those climates was impossible, the first Inuit had a nomadic style of life.

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Como la agricultura en esos climas era imposible, los primeros Inuit llevaron un estilo de vida nómada.

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This means that they moved with the seasons, following the animals that they depended on for their food.

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Esto quiere decir que se movían conforme a las estaciones, siguiendo a los animales de los que dependían para su alimentación.

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The fat of the bears and the marine mammals was an ideal fuel for lamps and stoves.

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La grasa de los osos y los mamíferos marinos era un combustible ideal para lámparas y estufas.

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The hunters came together to take care of each other in their long voyages.

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Los cazadores se unían para cuidarse unos a otros en sus largos viajes.

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At the beginning of the 19th century, the hunting of whales became an extremely important business, and the Inuit were the best whalers in the world.

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A principios del siglo XIX, la caza de ballenas se convirtió en un negocio importismo, y los Inuit eran de los mejores balleneros del mundo.

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At the same time, the demand for skins attracted the Inuit to do business with the whites.

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Al mismo tiempo, la demanda de pieles atrajo a los Inuit a comerciar con los blancos.

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Little by little, they began to depend on the supplies/raw materials of the western culture.

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Poco a poco empezaron a depender de los insumos de la cultura occidental.

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The Inuit moved to modern homes and accepted stable work to pay for their new styles of life.

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Los Inuit se trasladaron a hogares modernos y aceptaron trabajos estables para pagar sus nuevos estilos de vida.

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Each year that passed, they lost more of their culture.

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Cada año que pasó, perdieron más de su cultura.

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From then, has grown a rebirth of cultural Inuit pride throughout the Arctic.

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Desde entonces se ha dado un renacimiento del orgullo cultural Inuit por todo el Ártico.

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They were given their own territory.

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Les fue concedido su propio territorio.

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