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n. - A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia).

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  • To add to the complication however, not all Eskimo-Aleut speaking peoples find the term Eskimo insulting at all4.
  • In his native surroundings the Eskimo is a happy and contented citizen of the Dominion.
  • The Eastern Arctic Eskimo is a nomad and without a tribal system.
  • But she caught at her husband's name and cried out in Eskimo: — Yes!
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