Don't call them Eskimos anymore.
This nickname given by the Algonquin Amerindians to the Inuit in the days of the colony means “eaters of raw meat” in Inuktitut, the language of these distant Arctic regions.
Long used by explorers before being banned in the 1970s by the inhabitants of the Far North, the term “Eskimo” is still making waves in Canada.
So much so that the Edmonton Eskimos American football team, under pressure from the "right-thinking", changed its name in 2021 to the Edmonton Elks.
And since the ridiculous always flies in a squadron, the Eskimo Pie ice cream stick became Edy's Pie in 2020.
The original peoples of the Arctic are therefore Inuit,
“human beings”
, in Inuktitut.
With approximately 65,000 inhabitants, including 40,000 in Nunavut, the Inuit soul looms over more than 20% of Canada, from the far reaches of the Arctic Ocean to Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea.
While the majority of Inuit live in Nunavut, which in 1999 became a territory ...
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