Do you know if there's a good web site on the Inuit culture and igloo making?

Answer 1

here's a really good non-Inuit guide to igloo making.
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/winter/igloo.html

Igluksaq - means snow for igloo making.

From Norway - Another non-Inuit
http://home.no.net/gedra/igloo_bg.htm

How the Inuit do it:

To build the igloo, the builder takes a deep snowdrift of fine-grained, compact snow and cuts it into blocks with a snow knife, a swordlike instrument originally made of bone but now usually of metal. Each block is a rectangle measuring about 2 feet by 4 feet (60 cm by 120 cm) and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. After a first row of these blocks has been laid out in a circle on a flat stretch of snow, the top surfaces of the blocks are shaved off in a sloping angle to form the first rung of a spiral. Additional blocks are added to the spiral to draw it inward until the dome is completed except for a hole left at the top for ventilation. Joints and crevices are filled with loose snow. A clear piece of ice or seal intestine is inserted for a window. A narrow, semicylindrical passageway about 10 feet (3 m) long, with vaults for storing supplies, leads into the igloo. Drafts are kept from the main room by a sealskin flap hung over the exterior entrance to the passageway and by a low, semicircular retaining wall that is sometimes built out a few feet from the end of the tube. The major furnishings are a shallow saucer to burn seal blubber for heat and light and a low sleeping platform of snow covered with willow twigs topped by caribou furs.

http://www.wcie.net/inuit.htm

Inuit Culture:
http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/inuvial/indexe.html

Inuit Culture:
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Teacher/inuit_history.html

Inuit Federation
http://www.itk.ca/5000-year-heritage/index.php

Inuit Historical Photographs
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-116-e.php?trail=trail17

Eskimo defined
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo

Answer 2

Inuit Culture: Resources for Educators appears to be a good site
so does How to Build an Igloo


Hope that helps

Answer 3

http://polarhusky.com/2004/public/makingigloos.asp?menuID=44

try here, is a nice site with lots of info

you also can type igloo making or Inuit into a search engine and come up with other sites