In Inuit stories, the Tornit are indeed a race of wild people. “Stories of the Alaskan Bushmen, as well as Tornits, have been told ever since the first people crossed a Bering Land Bridge,” says the Anchorage Daily. From what the story says, the Inuit and the Tornits used to live in villages close to each other and hunt together. The Inuit often made kayaks and used them for hunting. Even though the tornits didn’t know how to build kayaks, they knew how important it was to have and use one.
Back in the day, the Inuit weren’t the only people who lived in Eskimo country. The Tornit were a big, strong group of people who lived near Cumberland Sound. They got along well with the Inuit & hunted in the same area but lived in different villages. They were taller and had longer legs and arms than the Inuit, but their eyes weren’t as good. They were so powerful that they could move big rocks too bulky for the Inuit, who were more potent than now. Several of the stones they used it to throw are still around, and even the most muscular men alive today can’t pick them up, let alone swing and throw people. Some of one‘s stone homes are still standing, too. For most of the winter, they lived in these houses, which were not covered with snow to keep them warm.
The most important part of one‘s winter clothes was a long, broad coat made of deer skin that went down to the knees and had leather straps around the edges. They did eat walrus, deer, and seal. When they went seal hunting in the winter, they used pegs to hold the bottom of their coats to the snow. Under the skin, they carried a tiny lamp that they used to melt winter weather when they became thirsty and to cook a portion of the seal meat. They seated around an opening in the ice and waited for their prey. Whenever a seal blew into the hole, they whispered, “I’ll stab it.” In their haste, they sometimes forgot about the lamp and knocked it over as they decided to throw the harpoon, and this caused them to get burned.
Their strength was so great they could hold a caught and killed whale as quickly as an Inuit might have a seal. These weaker men didn’t like to play hardball with them because they didn’t realize how rough those were and often hurt their playmates badly. This was something that the playfellows attempted to take in stride, and the two got along well except for each thing. Even though those who saw how helpful kayaks were for hunting animals whenever the ice decided to break up in the spring, the Tornit didn’t make any for themselves. They would thieve a boat from the Inuit every once in a while, and the Inuit didn’t fight back because the robbers were so muscular.
This made the Inuit angry, and they would speak among themselves and say they would get back at the thieves. One day, a young Tornit took a young Inuit’s boat without asking, and when he was trying to deal with it, he did run it into some floating ice blocks that broke the bottom. The owner kept his anger in check until night when the robber was asleep, and he could sneak into the shelter and stab the Tornit.
The Tornit tribe knew that the Inuit were getting angrier and angrier with them. After one of the Inuit finally got back at them, they feared that others might do the same thing in secret, so they chose to leave this country. To trick their neighbourhood, they cut off the tails of one‘s long coats & tied their tresses in bunches that stuck out behind them. This made them look like weird people as they ran away. Then they ran away, and the Inuit were so glad to see them go that they didn’t try to catch them.
