The Polar Bear Son Vocabulary

a member of an indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska

• Inuit

• Canadians

• Algonquians

• Siouan

to look after and provide for oneself without any help from others

• fend

• depend

• provider

• pleading

rely on

• fend

• depend

• provider

• pleading

to beg

• provider

• spare

• pleading

• fend

to stop from hurting

• fend

• spare

• custom

• sleek

forcefully

• bitterly

• pleading

• provider

• blubber

the fat of sea mammals

• bitter

• blubber

• Inuit

• depend

a traditional way of doing something

• provider

• custom

• spare

• fend

a person or thing that gives something

• Inuit

• depend

• provider

• plead

smooth and glossy

• spare

• blubber

• custom

• sleek