(photo courtesy of Teachers' Domain website)This is a brief video about the adaptability of the Inuit people - merging traditional and western knowledge. Like the indigenous people of Southeast Alaska, the Inuit have found ways to merge ancient and modern knowledge, though as this video shows, it is a work in progress and has not been easy. Resilience and adaptability, and their limitations, are presented in this video. As a school counselor, I am particularly interested in how cultures maintain the integrity of their traditional values and beliefs, how they pass on "life lessons" in the form of oral stories and cultural metaphors, in the face of western influence.
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