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Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: 18 Jan 2006 00:19:02 -0800
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Yes, I could have been more specific and spoken of the Inupiaq,
Sugpiaq, Yupiq, etc. Having spent a little time in Fairbanks with young
people from the Arctic villages, I am well aware that "Eskimo" is the
term used by the people themselves in Alaska. I am also aware that
"Inuit" is the now-official term in Canada and very much aware of the
Greenland Inuit. I was speaking of the families that were separated by
the Bering Strait and the 20th century Ice Curtain, none of which are
in Greenland or Canada. When the Greenland and Canadian Inuit people
united with the Alaskan Eskimos to celebrate the dissolution of the Ice
Curtain, it was more in a supportive role than in a personal one. I
will grant that, however, that it is more correct to use the
French-derived term "Eskimo" than "Inuit" in terms of how Alaskan
Arctic people (other than the Aleut) describe themselves. I also note
that their first-line description of themselves is village or cultural
group (Inupiaq, Yupiq, etc.) and only secondly "Eskimo". They also
increasingly identify as "indigenous", linked in today's world to other
indigenous people living under non-native governments. Best, Bronwen
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