Words similar to eskimo
Example sentences for: eskimo
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Only an Eskimo, you would think, could survive winter in Harbin, the capital of China’s northeastern-most province, Heilongjiang.
The novel, the first by Chuck Palahniuk (the surname sounds like Eskimo for "palooka"--which somehow fits), walks a line between the straight and ironic--it isn't always clear if its glib sociological pronouncements are meant to be taken straight or as the ravings of a delusional mama's boy.
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.
There is also an academic distinction between Inuit and Eskimo, as explained by Alan D. Macmillan, a British Columbia professor of anthropology:
In an Eskimo village near the Arctic Circle in Alaska, they sampled server software made with whale blubber, as the natives have been doing it for thousands of years.