Native Americans Arctic Culture Groups What's in a Name?
The famous term Eskimo has fallen on hard times among some students of Arctic culture, who believe it either means the pejorative "eaters of red meat" or the milder "to net snowshoes" — both of which did not originate with Eskimos. Some Alaskan Arctic residents accept the term as applied to them; others in Greenland and Canada prefer Inuit, meaning "the people."
The following is a representative sample of general locations and original names of peoples in the Arctic regions of North America.
Eskimo
Inupiaq in the broad coastal and tundra regions of Alaska north of Norton Sound in the Bering Sea region
Yup'ik in the coastal watersheds of the Yukon and the Kuskokwim rivers, which flow westward through southwest Alaska and drain into the Bering Sea.
Inuit
Inupiaq in Canada and Greenland
Kalaalit in Greenland
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