The Arctic
Abstract For people who have never lived there (and for some who have), the word “Arctic” conjures up a landscape almost incredibly forbidding. The Inuit, however, over the course of thousands of years, learned to live successfully in that cold, rugged country. Inuit (plural of Inuk) means “People”...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
2000
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195138979.003.0010 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52501404/isbn-9780195138979-book-part-10.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract For people who have never lived there (and for some who have), the word “Arctic” conjures up a landscape almost incredibly forbidding. The Inuit, however, over the course of thousands of years, learned to live successfully in that cold, rugged country. Inuit (plural of Inuk) means “People” in the native language. In recent years, and especially in Canada and Greenland, it has replaced Eskimo, an Algonquian word meaning “eaters of raw meat” and one that many Inuit find offensive. The Unangan, or Aleut, are also generally considered to be Arctic, rather than Subarctic, residents. |
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