Thanks for the education.
Growing up in the United States I learned almost nothing of the native
people, and am still learning.
America was built on ethnic cleansing, of course; no wonder some of us
still know so little.
Given the length of time non-white people lived on the North American
continent, and the length of time it took to decimate their population
and eviscerate their culture, I figure that modern Americans in
comparison would last for a few days at most if some Pilgrim-like
aliens came out of the sky.
A scary thought.
On Wednesday, Nov 17, 2004, at 15:53 Asia/Tokyo, John Rigby wrote:
The word Innuit comes from a common sorta language of the "frozen
North". As a claim to a name, it probably belongs to the Innu:
The Innu, formerly known as the Naskapi-Montagnais Indians, are an
Algonkian-speaking people whose homeland (Nitassinan) is the eastern
portion of the Québec-Labrador peninsula. The word "Innu" means "human
being", and the Innu language is called "Innu-aimun." Today there are
over 16,000 Innu who live in eleven communities in Québec and two in
Labrador.
They used words to describe people by characteristics that made them
stand out, like "he who wears fluffy pink bunny boots" given to
whatsisname in the fabulous sendup of "Hotshots".
Inuit are another people who live near the Arctic. Their homeland
stretches from the northeastern tip of Russia across Alaska and
northern Canada to parts of Greenland. Inuit refers to the people
formerly called Eskimos. The term Eskimo derives from a Innu word that
meant 'eater of raw meat'. I couldn't find anyone who took the
responsibility for inventing the change of name that they used when
communicating with the "dead fish" - the early Caucasians going
there. They might prefer the name Inuit today, which only means 'the
people' or 'real people' and comes from a language called
Inuit-Inupiaq. The singular of Inuit is Inuk, which means 'person'.
(From various sources)
Peace! Or Else!
Himagain Just thought I'd throw that in, in the light of how these
nonsense things get outta hand so easily.
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