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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:02:53 +0000
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> From:

> 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>

Yes, but do any of them have British ancestors, otherwise what's the
point of this debate stuttering on? Doesn't it belong on an
anthropological list somewhere?

Eskimo...Inuit...how many here care what the politically correct
description is, provided they're allowed to get on with their lives
in peace and freedom as they see fit? I expect there are plenty of
folks from the north-east who object to being called Geordies, while
others relish it, but I doubt it's being discussed on an Alaskan
genealogy mailing list! <v.b.g.>

Roy Stockdill
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and that is not being talked about."

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