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From: (Floyd L. Davidson)
Subject: Re: Most recent common ancestors
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:33:40 -0900
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Denis Beauregard <> wrote:
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>Inuit is how they call themselves and means something like "us".
>Eskimo is how they are called by Crees and means "raw meat eaters".

That sure sounds good eh? Makes your little Western heart feel good...

Of course none of that is true, other than the term probably does
derive from the Algonquin language spoken by the Cree. Some think
it came from "snowshoe netter" others think it came from "people
who speak a different language".

Inuit doesn't mean "us" either. It makes reference to a person
with a genuine human spirit. That is as opposed to a non-human
masquerading as a human and still with its own non-human spirit.

(That is a difficult concept for Christians to understand. But
consider that some women commonly maquerade as a shrew and some
men commonly masquerade as a bear. Well, shrews and bears can
masquerade as humans too! And in fact, some humans you think
are masquerading as animals might actually *be* animals
masquerading as humans...)

--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>;
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

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