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From: Don Aitken <>
Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:39:27 +0000
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On 17 Jan 2006 14:42:55 -0800, wrote:

>In fact, Inuit people have traveled back and forth across the Bering
>Strait from time immemorial. When the Cold War cut off that connection,
>the Inuits called it the "Ice Curtain" (I suppose the USSR and the USA
>thought the Inuit were hiding bombs in their umiaks). There were great
>celebrations that spanned the Asian, American-Canadian & Greenland
>Arctic regions after the Ice Curtain came down. Families that had been
>split apart, some "Asian" and some "Alaskan", reunited for the first
>time in decades. "Inuit" trumped "US" or "Russia" as far as identity
>went. - Bronwen

In fact, the majority of Alaskan Eskimos are *not* Inuit; some
positively object to being so described, and some don't care, but it
is still not accurate. Canadian Eskimos *are* all Inuit, and that is
the preferred description in Canada, but *only* in Canada.

See http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/inuitoreskimo.html for a good short note
on this.

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