The number of Eskimos: an Arctic enigma

• 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

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