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Eskimo, Eskimos |
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an old-fashioned word used for a member of any of the native peoples of northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and northeastern Russia. Most of the people of these northern regions are Inuits.
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Eskimo is a Danish form of an Algonquin Indian name for these northern American tribes.
Inuit, which is the Eskimo people's name for themselves, means "men."