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As another example, the indigenous people of the Arctic are, as far as I know, still commonly referred to in the United States as Eskimos; but for some time now the PC term in Canada has been Inuit, a term which affords great scope for PC snobbery, as it can be fairly complicated; the people are Inuit; the language is Inuitituk; and an individual is an Inuk.
' Inuit were earlier known by Europeans as `Eskimos'--a pejorative, roughly meaning `eaters of raw meat,' applied to them by INDIAN groups.
However, it must be remembered that not all `Eskimos' are Inuit.
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.