Eskimos
Eskimo is an English term for the indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the northern circumpolar region stretching from eastern Siberia(Russia), across Alaska (of the United States) and Canada, to Greenland.
The two main peoples known as "Eskimo" are:
(1) the Alaskan Iñupiat peoples, Eskimo Inuit, and the mass-grouping Inuit peoples of Canada, and,
(2) the Yupik of eastern Siberia and Alaska.
The Yupik comprise speakers of four distinct Yupik languages: one used in the Russian Far East and the others among people of Western Alaska, South-central Alaska and along the Gulf of Alaska coast. A third northern group, the Aleut, is closely related to these two. They share a relatively recent common ancestor, and a language group (Eskimo-Aleut).
The word "Eskimo" derives from phrases that Algonquin tribes used for their northern neighbours. The Inuit and Yupik peoples generally do not use it to refer to themselves, and the governments in Canada and Greenland have ceased using it in official documents.
The Last True Eskimos in Alaskan Northwest
