Indigenous Eskimo
Which name to use.
Indigenous eskimo. In canada and greenland the term eskimo is predominantly seen as offensive or non preferred and has been widely replaced by the term inuit 24 34 35 41 or terms specific to a particular group or community. I don t mind to be called eskimo it is neutral for me. Inuit ˈ ɪ nj u ɪ t. Who are the eskimo people.
Popular culture the eskimo pie an ice cream bar dipped in chocolate exploded in popularity in the united states in 1922 the same year the groundbreaking documentary nanook of the north was released. The term eskimo is slowly being replaced by the canadian term inuit or yupik each of these terms is used by different settlements of eskimos. Eskimos or the inuits are the indigenous people inhabiting parts of the northern circumpolar region ranging from siberia to canada. These are the people we tend to call eskimos.
We get to read about people living in homes made of snow. Inuit sign language is a critically endangered language isolate used in nunavut. 6 upi dreyer s grand ice cream announced tuesday it plans to rename its eskimo pie novelty ice cream months after acknowledging the name was derogatory toward indigenous communities. Linguistic ethnic and cultural differences exist between yupik and inuit.
The term eskimo encompasses inuit and yupik as well as other indigenous alaskan and siberian peoples. Eskimo aleut includes inuktitut and its dialects as well as aleut the language spoken by the aleut people of alaska s aleutian islands and northeastern russia. Inuuk ᐃᓅᒃ are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the arctic regions of greenland canada and alaska united states. Greenland native nina vivi andersen pictured in downtown nuuk greenland has her own perspective on the word eskimo.
The inuit languages are part of the eskimo aleut family. Although the name eskimo was commonly used in alaska to refer to inuit and yupik people of the world this usage is now considered unacceptable by many or even most alaska natives largely since it is a colonial name imposed by non indigenous people. Eskimo is a word that most people around the world associate with indigenous or native people living around the polar regions of the world namely siberia alaska greenland and some parts of canada. In canada the inuit prefer the name they use themselves inuit signifying the people in inuktitut.
Eskimo any member of a group of peoples who with the closely related aleuts constitute the chief element in the indigenous population of the arctic and subarctic regions of greenland canada the united states and far eastern russia. It means he who eats raw meat.