Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 07:36:04 -0330, Doug Robbins ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Nigel L wrote: >>> >>> ....theEskimo theme, for both Mozilla release 0.9.9 and +. >> >>FYI, 'Eskimo' is generally disfavoured today. Aboriginal inhabitants of >>northern North America are generally known as 'Inuit', which is how they >>identify themselves. > >Not all Eskimos are Inuit. I am a member of the White minority living >in Bethel, in western Alaska. The majority of the people here are >Yupik. http://www.bethelarts.com/ > >Most of the Yupik here are not politically correct and refer to >themselves as Eskimos. > >Karl
They are, of course, *technically* very correct. Heh, that's only the half of it too! Inupiat Eskimos in Alaska don't like to be called Inuit either, even though technically they are indeed Inuit. They virtually *never* refer to themselves as "Inuit". In fact the term "Eskimo" is the only proper word in the English language which is inclusive of all Eskimo people, and should be used when appropriate. Inuit, Inupiat, and Yupik are terms that are less inclusive and should be used when that is appropriate. With Yupik it can be even more exclusive though... Karl lives with Yup'ik (Central Alaskan Yupik) people, but there are also Alutiiq, Cup'ik, and Siberian Yupik peoples too. It should also be noted that Eskimos are not hardly the only "Aboriginal inhabitants of northern North America". Athabascan people are more numerous; plus there are Unangam (Aleut), Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimsian people in Alaska. -- Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd> Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
