Inuit culture

thumb|upright=1.35|Community of igluit (Illustration from Charles Francis Hall's Arctic Researches and Life Among the Esquimaux, 1865) An igloo (Inuit languages: or , Inuktitut syllabics ; plural: ), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow.

thumb|An inuksuk at the Foxe Peninsula, [[Nunavut, Canada]]

form of showing affection

Piblokto, also known as pibloktoq and Arctic hysteria, is a condition most commonly appearing in Inughuit (Northwest Greenlandic Inuit) societies living within the Arctic Circle. Piblokto is a culture-specific hysterical reaction in Inuit, especially women, who may perform irrational or dangerous acts, followed by amnesia for the event. Piblokto may be linked to repression of the personality of Inuit women. The condition appears most commonly in winter. It is considered to be a form of a culture-bound syndrome, although more recent studies (see Skepticism section) question whether it exists at

thumb|A small piece of qiviut wool

culture of the Inuit in the Arctic and Subarctic region

type of kinship system

Canadian television network

church building in Nunavut, Canada

thumb|Blanket toss in Utqiagvik, Alaska thumb|Blanket toss between 1921 and 1924

In Inuit culture, sipiniq (; West Greenland Inuttut: sipineq, from sipi meaning "to split", plural sipiniit) refers to a person who is believed to have changed their physical sex as an infant, but whose gender is typically designated as being the same as their perceived original sex. In some ways, being sipiniq can be considered a third gender. In Inuit Nunaat this concept is primarily attested in areas of the Canadian Arctic, such as Igloolik and Nunavik, as well in Greenland such as Kitaamiut Inuit and Inughuit, though Iiviit used the words tikkaliaq and nuliakaaliaq. The Netsilik Inuit used

historic site in Nunavut, Canada