Eskimo
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Eskimo is a controversial umbrella term that refers to two closely related Indigenous peoples, namely Inuit and Yupik of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group, Aleuts, who inhabit the Aleu
Laminar armour from hardened leather reinforced by wood and bones worn by native Siberians and Eskimos
Lamellar armour worn by native Siberians
Stone remains of a Dorset culture longhouse near Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
English ("Welcome to Barrow") and Iñupiaq (Paġlagivsigiñ Utqiaġvigmun), Utqiaġvik, Alaska, framed by whale jawbones
Inuit
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Inuit are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec
Eskimo
…Eskimo () is a controversial umbrella term that refers to two closely related Indigenous peoples, namely Inuit (including the Alaska Native Iñupiat, the Canadian and Greenlandic Inuit) and Yupik (or Yuit) of eastern Siberia and Alaska. A related third group…
A European ship coming into contact with Inuit in the ice of Hudson Bay in 1697
An anonymous 1578 illustration believed to show Kalicho (left), and Arnaq and Nutaaq (right)
Hudson's Bay Company Ships bartering with Inuit off the Upper Savage Islands, Hudson Strait, 1819
Igloolik Inuit women and child (known as Iglulingmiut or "people of Igloolik") in traditional parkas (1999)