The type of homes that the Inuit people built depended on the kinds of materials they could find., the kind of weather they had to shelter from and how often they moved from place to place. Different Inuit groups had different kinds of shelters. Igloo's were temporary shelters while other winter houses were built with stones and covered with sod. The coastal Inuit sometimes built larger homes that were partly dug into the ground and covered by seal skin or sod roofs.
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