The number of Eskimos: an Arctic enigma

Eskimo-speaking peoples inhabit Arctic lands that extend some 6 400 km longitudinallyfrom Chukotka to Greenland. This enormous territory comes under the administration of four nations: Canada, Denmark, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and United States of America. As citizens of these nations, E...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Bone, Robert M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1973
Subjects:
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ecology
Geography, Planning and Development
Arctic
Canada
Greenland
Chukotka
eskimo*
Polar Record
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400063373
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400063373
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Summary:Eskimo-speaking peoples inhabit Arctic lands that extend some 6 400 km longitudinallyfrom Chukotka to Greenland. This enormous territory comes under the administration of four nations: Canada, Denmark, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and United States of America. As citizens of these nations, Eskimos are becoming more and more enmeshed in the cultures and economies of their respective industrial societies, with the result that, as in other underdeveloped regions of the world, their numbers have increased markedly in therecent past

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