heart shaped salmon!

drying meat was a practical way to keep it from spoiling. strips of whale, caribou, seal, or fish meat were hung from tall wooden racks, allowing the air and sun to slowly dry the meat.
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thank you air!!!
thank you sun!!!

roasting

when food was cooked, it was usually boiled in containers made of animal skin or tree bark. hot stones were placed in a container to heat the liquid. the subarctic Indians also roasted or smoked meat & fish.

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permafrost

in the tundra, permafrost - ground that remains frozen for two or more years at a time - limits the growth of plant roots and tends to keep water close to the surface. therefore, trees cannot grow on it. however, above the permafrost, a layer of soil about 1.5 to 16.5 feet (0.5 to 5 meters) thick freezes and thaws enough to permit low-lying bushes, grasses, and wildflowers to grow.  in the summer, the tundra comes alive with such plants as Arctic willow, crowberry, dwarf Arctic birch, and dwarf blueberry.
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4 to 6 dogs

dogs were a vital part of life for many Arctic and Subarctic peoples... [they] were valuable members of many Inuit villages. a family usually owned 4 to 6 dogs but sometimes had as many as 10. a person with 10 dogs was considered quite wealthy, as it was hard to keep that many dogs well fed.
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game animals

for the most part, the people of the subarctic depended on game animals for their food (caribou, moose, musk oxen, deer & salmon, whitefish or eels for those that lived close to waterways)