anufactured items have entered the culture, also money, unknown in the traditional Inuit economy, has become a necessity ( Friesen 21).
             For years the Inuit communities of Canada and Greenland have been experiencing difficulties with the governments of the world. Their biggest problem has been the collapse of their markets for whale meat, whale blubber, and sealskin, which started in the 1970's. The market for these types of products crashed because of the Marine Mammal Protection Act passed by the U.S. government and the crusades of people in the mid 80's, which eventually caused the European market to crash. The MMPA is designed to prohibit the importing o
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