USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Alaska Natives increasingly prefer to be known by the names they use in their own languages, such as Inupiaq or Yupik . “Inuit” is now the current term in Alaska and across the Arctic, and “Eskimo” is fading from use. The Inuit Circumpolar Council prefers the term “Inuit” but some other organizations use “Eskimo".

Detailed explanation-2: -The term ‘Eskimo’ Stricktly speaking, eskimos can also be regarded as native Americans, because what western people call ‘eskimos’ are actually the indigenous people inhabiting parts of the northern circumpolar region ranging from Siberia to parts of the Americas (Alaska and Canada).

Detailed explanation-3: -The word’s racist history means most people in Canada and Greenland still prefer other terms. The most widespread is Inuit, which means simply, “people.” The singular, which means “person, ” is Inuk. Of course, as with so many words sullied by the crimes of colonialism, not everyone agrees on what to do with Eskimo.

Detailed explanation-4: -The word Inuit means “the people” in the Inuit language of Inuktut. The singular of Inuit is Inuk.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Inuit have traditionally been fishermen and hunters. They still hunt whales (esp. bowhead whale), seal, (esp. ringed seal, harp seal, common seal, bearded seal), polar bears, muskoxen, birds, and fish and at times other less commonly eaten animals such as the Arctic fox.