[ExI] War ----- It's a meme!

[John Grigg]

I'm so proud of the list members for showing sensitivity regarding the
indigenous peoples of Alaska.  I grew up there with a bestfriend who
was half Inuit and half White.  He caught hell from both sides...

John

On 11/9/10, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/9 Darren Greer wrote>:
>> It's not so much the generalized term that people are using, but what that
>> generalized term means and where it comes from.  Inuit means "our people"
>> from a Northern Indigenous tribal dialect. Eskimo means "eater of raw
>> flesh"
>> from the Cree, who are incontestibly not Eskimo or Inuit. Nit-picking
>> aside,
>> I can see that the objections to the first might be greater than the
>> second.
>>
>
>
> Thanks for the info. Complicated, isn't it?
>
> Does that mean that Spike is really an Eskimo?  ;)
> (He loves sushi).
>
> Some sources do give alternative (less-offensive) meanings for Eskimo.
>
>
> BillK
>
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