a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')
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inuit::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | eskimo, esquimau |
| Type of | amerindian, native american |
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Inuit handicrafts offer great shopping opportunities, but the hunt can be tricky.
From the latimes.com
Inuit traditional laws are anthropologically different from Western law concepts.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Inuit may have any number of names, given by parents and other community members.
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Inuit mythology has many similarities to the religions of other polar regions.
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Inuit culture is one of the few New World cultures to have a chordophone tradition.
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Inuit and most North American Indian languages do not have a general term for music.
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Inuit are the only known band of human beings never to have brewed alcohol.
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Inuit dolls are made out of soapstone and bone, materials common to the Inuit people.
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Inuit were forced to abandon hunting and whaling sites in the high Arctic.
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- Eskimo: a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')
- The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic region of Canada (Northwest Territories,Denmark (Greenland), Russia (Siberia) and(Alaska). The Inuit language is grouped under Eskimo-Aleut languages. An Inuk is an Inuit person.
- Any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland; Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture; Inuktitut, the Inuit language
- [inn-oo-wit]- translated roughly as "true men" or "the real people", this is the preferred term for Eskimo in Northern Canada and Greenland.
- N (person) inuitoPIV,EB,RV,BW,EEG, inukoEEG, (older term) eskimoZ,PIV
- One of the Aboriginal Indigenous peoples of the Arctic, to whom the Euro-Americans have misapplied the derogatory label "Eskimo."
- Aboriginal people in northern Canada living generally above the tree line in the Northwest Territories, northern Quebec and Labrador. The Inuit are not covered in the Indian Act but the federal government makes laws concerning the Inuit.
- [N], PO > head, FO up, FT touch DS temple and then DS of chin.
- Native people who live in the arctic regions of Canada, and in Greenland and Alaska.
