The Inuit people of North America used to be called Eskimos. 【小题1】 Their lives have changed a lot in the past 30 years.

The Inuit people used to live in igloos （冰窖）in winter , but today, many of them live in houses in small towns. They used to hunt seals （海豹）.【小题2】 . Many of them still wear seal-skin clothes today because they are very warm, Remember , the weather is very cold for many months of the year.

Mariano Tagalik, a 65-year-old Inuit, told us a little about her past life. "Our winter igloos were very warm. We cooked inside, so sometimes it got too hot. 【小题3】 In the short summers, we lived in seal-skin tents,but I spent as much time as possible playing outside. "

To move over the snow, Inuit people wore special snowshoes on their feet. 【小题4】 These machines can travel long distances（距离）in a short time. In the past, it took them days or weeks to travel the same distance.

【小题5】 They learnt everything from their parents. Now, like all North Americans, they go to school for about ten years. Life is not as hard as it used to be, but many of the older Inuits hate modern life and want to go back to the old days.