"Native American" and variations thereof (2)

Mark Odegard markodegard at HOTMAIL.COM
Fri Jan 12 03:53:52 UTC 2001


>I don't call them Eskimos and I live in the United States. I say Inuit or
>Athabaskan or whatever applies.
>
>Benjamin Barrett

My understanding is that the Eskimos themselves use the word 'Eskimo', at
least in English.

As a linguistic classification, it is still in effect, as demonstrated at
the ethnologue data base:
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/families/Eskimo-Aleut.html

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