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  2. Inuit culture - Wikipedia

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    They displaced the related Dorset culture (from 500 BCE to between CE 1000 and 1500), called the Tuniit in Inuktitut, which was the last major Paleo-Eskimo culture. [23] The first Inuit group, known as Paleo-Eskimos, crossed the Bering Strait in 3000 BCE presumably on winter ice, which was long after earlier migrations by the ancestors to the ...

  3. Inuit - Wikipedia

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    They displaced the related Dorset culture, called the Tuniit in Inuktitut, which was the last major Paleo-Eskimo culture. [29] Inuit legends speak of the Tuniit as "giants", people who were taller and stronger than Inuit. [30] Less frequently, the legends refer to the Dorset as "dwarfs". [31]

  4. Thule people - Wikipedia

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    The Punuk culture was initially defined by Henry Collins in 1928 from a 16 ft (4.9 m) deep midden on one of the Punuk Islands. Later excavation on St Lawrence Island confirmed Jenness's ideas on the Bering Sea culture, and demonstrated a continual cultural sequence on the island from Old Bering Sea, to Punuk, to modern Eskimo culture. [5]

  5. Inuit mother and daughter demonstrate what a real 'Eskimo ...

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    We've been doing "Eskimo kisses" all wrong according to one Inuit mother-daughter pair. Inuit have resided in the arctic for 5,000 years. Due to colonialism, the Inuit population is only roughly ...

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  7. Dorset culture - Wikipedia

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    The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from 500 BCE to between 1000 CE and 1500 CE, that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Thule people (proto-Inuit) in the North American Arctic. The culture and people are named after Cape Dorset (now Kinngait) in Nunavut, Canada, where the first evidence of its existence was found. The culture ...

  8. Inuit women - Wikipedia

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    The word "Eskimo" has been used to encompass the Inuit and Yupik, and other indigenous Alaskan and Siberian peoples, [2] [3] [4] but this usage is in decline. [5] [6] In Inuit communities, the women play a crucial role in the survival of the group. The responsibilities faced by Inuit women were considered equally as important as those faced by ...

  9. Eskimology - Wikipedia

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    Eskimology / ˌ ɛ s k ɪ ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i / or Inuitology is a complex of humanities and sciences studying the languages, history, literature, folklore, culture, and ethnology of the speakers of Eskimo–Aleut languages and Inuit, Yupik and Aleut (or Unangam), sometimes collectively known as Eskimos, in historical and comparative context.