They could make broth after they got pots.
They got pots after contact with Europeans.
And cooking fuel.

William

Ashley Moran wrote:
> On Aug 01, 2008, at 2:03 pm, Rundle wrote:
>
>> Where did you read that the Inuit made broth?... this seems highly 
>> unlikely to me since their energy sources were very scarce and long 
>> cooking outdoors [the igloo would melt if cooking was done indoors] 
>> is very inefficient energy wise... for some odd reason they DID hard 
>> boil eggs gathered from nests... in long STONE troughs [outdoors] ... 
>> you'd think they'd eat them raw...
>
> Now I've looked, I can't find any reliable reference to the Inuit 
> doing this.  (If you google for "inuit bone broth" you get a few 
> people that make the same comment I did, but no primary sources.)  It 
> seems they did make broths[1], but not bone broths.
>
> Ashley
>
>
> [1] 
> http://forums.canadiancontent.net/canadian-culture/60870-first-nations-inuit-metis-food-2.html 
>
> (near the bottom, quote from Stefansson)
>
>