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Example sentences for: eskimo

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I once read that the Eskimo has 30-odd words for snow, not all of them impolite, which is not surprising in view of the Arctic habitat and lifestyle.
Only an Eskimo, you would think, could survive winter in Harbin, the capital of China’s northeastern-most province, Heilongjiang.
One could, therefore, simplify matters by saying that Canadian and Greenland--but not Alaskan or Siberian-- Eskimos are Inuit . Although, as it so happens, according to Macmillan, at the first Inuit Circumpolar Conference, held in Barrow, Alaska, in 1977, Inuit from Alaska, Canada, and Greenland officially adopted the term Inuit for all peoples formerly known as Eskimo, despite linguistic differences.
Flaherty's famous portrait of an Eskimo's daily struggle to survive was the first attempt to join documentary filmmaking to personal vision, in Flaherty's case a vision of humankind's struggle to overcome Nature.
There is also an academic distinction between Inuit and Eskimo, as explained by Alan D. Macmillan, a British Columbia professor of anthropology: