** ** All About The Inuit By Andrew Shen Between 1610 and 1632, five European expeditions seeking a Northwest Passage to the Pacific reached the Hudson and James bays where they recorded one face-to-face encounter with most probably an Inuit individual. Before contact with Europeans, Inuit lived in small, autonomous, nomadic groups, dependent upon hunting, fishing, and gathering for survival and all their physical needs. Precontact Inuit lived in a variety of structures, depending on the time...