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Eskimo (/ ˈ ɛ s k ɪ m oʊ /) is an ... American linguist Lenore Grenoble has also explicitly deferred to the ICC resolution and used Inuit–Yupik instead of ...
The term Eskimo is still used by people; [19] [68] [69] however in the 21st century, usage in North America has declined. [20] [21] In the United States the term Eskimo was, as of 2016, commonly [19] used to describe Inuit and the Siberian and Alaskan Yupik, and Iñupiat peoples. Eskimo is still used by some groups and organizations to ...
The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland).The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat (northern Alaska), and Yupik (Siberia and western Alaska), [1] and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska.
This is a partial list of notable American Inuit, especially Iñupiat, who largely reside in Alaska. The Arctic and subarctic dwelling Inuit (formerly referred to as Eskimo) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting Canada, Greenland and parts of Russia. Callan Chythlook-Sifsof. John Baker, dog musher, pilot and ...
The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and the adjacent subarctic regions as far south as Labrador. The Inuit languages are one of the two branches of the Eskimoan language family , the other being the Yupik languages , which are spoken in Alaska and ...
American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1. Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1983). The Nelson Island Eskimo: Social Structure and Ritual Distribution. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Pacific University Press. Fienup-Riordan, Ann. (1990). Eskimo Essays: Yupʼik Lives and How We ...
The Eskaleut (/ ɛ ˈ s k æ l i uː t / e-SKAL-ee-oot), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan [1] languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent, and a small part of northeastern Asia.
Lacking an early written language, Kivallirmiut pre-history is unclear. There are three main theories: [25] [26] Kivallirmiut are the descendants of an interior Eskimo culture that spread in Arctic North America and Greenland.