Dave Smith wrote:

> 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.

Yes, saw that. At one time we called generically all the serious top
nothern set 'Eskimo' but they are various native tribes that span the
globe up there.