Talk:Inuit

Are all the nomadic Inuit pagan and none of the settled Inuit? If not, I would recommend changing the phrase 'pagan nomads'Theophilus88 11:48, 5 March 2006 (PST)

I'm not sure what profit there is in having a page for an ethnic group / race, unless it is a constructed culture or an ethnic group that doesn't exist *here*. Most of the information on this page should be moved to various articles of countries where the Inuit live and / or the League of Ice article. Elemtilas 14:00, 5 March 2006 (PST)

The reason for this article, as well the reason for it being a proposal, is because the history of the Inuit nation here is very different than it was in the real world. Everything since 18th century, including the national revival, the movements for unification of the Inuit lands, the settling and christianising of some Inuiits to adopt a "more advanced" religion due to the promotion of this lifestyle by some educated Inuits, development of a standard Inuit language, etc. here is invented and did not happen in the real world. The reasons for these events, such as support from some whites for the Inuit self-identification, came from the generally different racial views in IB towards native Amricans (elsewhere in NAL the natives has more power too than they had/has in real worlds USA). Abdul-aziz 14:07, 5 March 2006 (PST)

The same can certainly be said of almost èvery ethnos in the IB world! For example, we decided long ago that the Kemrese overlords in Ireland didn't mess about with the local system of governance or the culture like the English did *here*. Simple, right? Well, the fact is, this means that the old culture, really stretching back to the bronze age, is pretty much intact. The bards and druids and kings, the ancient legal system and traditional culture were nòt stamped upon or swept away. We have a very different Irish ethnos *there* -- but those issues can be dealt with in the Ireland article rather than creating a new Irish culture article.

My point is not to dismiss real differences experienced by *there*'s Inuit. It is only that we risk the creation of dozens of culture / ethnology articles that really could better be placed within the bodies of the country articles they pertain to. Elemtilas 16:18, 5 March 2006 (PST)

I don't see anything wrong with an Inuit article. Especially since they're not restricted to a single nation. I'm not too crazy about the infobox, but the article itself is fine. If a lengthy article can be prepared about something, why shouldn't it be an article on its own, rather than a section of another one? Nik 21:36, 5 March 2006 (PST)

Well, neither are the Irish restricted to a single nation. In response to your question, I think it's an organisational thing. IB information really isn't complex or developed enough to really warrant individual articles for every little detail of life. As they stand, the articles on Greenland, or League of Ice are pretty skimpy. I'm not going to delete the article, certainly. I'm just of the opinon that we would be better off filling out other articles rather than creating little articles all over the place. Elemtilas 14:16, 6 March 2006 (PST)

League of Ice is an organisation though, and this is a nation, so if the information would be there it would be displaced (redirect from Inuits would be needed anyways and, if League of Ice article would be developed on itself about the organisation, it would become too long if dealing with both topics. Writing the same information in Nunavik, Unincorporated territory, Alyaska, Chukotka and Greenland articles is not the best solution either. And, I like relatively short articles myself - if an IB article is of such lenght that it could make like a quarter of book and deals with several subjects, then it is usually hard to understand for me where to start to read and such and I don't read frequently. In IB there is a theoretical possibility to write about all the little aspects of life, as the explainatiomns about this WIki says, nothing is ever complete. And as for the infobox, the information there is different from real life too - in this proposal, the number of Inuits is somewhat larger than in the real world (presumably due to earlier settling down, better availablity of medicines and such), perecentages are different (e.g. percentage the Inuits makes of the local population in Greenland is quite lower than in the real world due to the higher immigration there recently in IB), different religious makeup and such. Abdul-aziz 15:09, 6 March 2006 (PST)

OK. You guys win. I don't agree with it, but I'm not going to push this one. Elemtilas 18:54, 6 March 2006 (PST)

Name

Shouldn't this page be called "Inuit" instead of "Inuits"? Inuit is already the plural form. Christina 19:06, 17 August 2011 (PDT)

It can be renamed. Abdul-aziz 13:57, 23 August 2011 (PDT)

Religion

Due to the significant Muevasefaradí influence in Nunavik (the Nunavikians write their language in a Ladino-based variant of the Hebrew alphabet, for instance), I'd assume a recognizable percentage of Inuit of the Jewish faith. The MSies wouldn't be going out specifically to "convert the heathens", but i think some degree of religiocultural influence could be interesting. Steg. Boroparkpyro 08:29, 25 August 2011 (PDT)