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"Jim Carter" wrote:
"Floyd L. Davidson" wrote in message ... ..................................snip........... ........... Don't say that to anyone in Alaska, because the might laugh at you. Even the Inupiat people (who actually are Inuit) don't use the term Inuit. Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) Hi Floyd: What you have mentioned may be true of the Western Arctic but not so in the Eastern Arctic. The term Inuit is used by "the people" and they absolutely detest the name Eskimo. It is considered, by themselves, to be a racial slur. You are very correct when you say it was probably started by Government's and the white traders despicable treatments of the Inuit in times past. I have yet to meet a Canadian or Greenland Eskimo who actually got upset about the term Eskimo. What they get upset about is the attitude of *people*, not the terminology. Every single one of them that I've met were well aware of the proper use of the the term, and had no problem with it. You realize of course that it is rarely ever needed in Canada or Greenland, simply because all of the Eskimos there are indeed Inuit. -- Floyd L. Davidson http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) |
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