On 2021-04-23 10:05 p.m., cshenk wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>

>> One of the latest unacceptable names is Eskimo. Some people consider
>> it to be a pejorative, apparently having some negative connotation.
>> White people get the blame for it, but it was the name that the
>> natives of the north called them.
>
> My understanding may be flawed but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo
>
> Tells that some settlement issues in the USA mean Eskimo is used at
> times generically but Inuit is generally to be used for the Polar
> region ones (and I think the Aleuit?). It doesn't apply outside USA as
> it's a legal thing related to Alaska only. The article is a little
> flawed now as they are sure Native Americans arrived a lot earlier than
> what they say. Perhaps in the severe arctic, they left less tracable
> signs?
>

It gets a little more complicated. The Inuit in northern Canada are
descendants of the Thule culture. Before they settled there about 500
years ago there was a similar group of the Dorset culture.