Inuit Tribe : Concise Explanation and Misconception
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This
article will be talking shortly about the Inuit tribe to give an easy concise
explanation and in hope to provide a way to sort out the misconception about
them that has been going on for a long time. The Inuit
tribe or, more appropriately, the Inuit, the world’s most widely
dispersed cultural groups still practicing a partly aboriginal lifestyle,
consist of cultural groups living in the Arctic regions. These regions include
Russia, United States, Canada, and Greenland.
Inuit Tribe: Concise Explanation
The Inuit tribe
lives dispersed throughout the most of Canadian Arctic as well as subarctic in
Nunavut territory. The Alaskan North Slope and the Little Diomede Island are
the area inhabited by the Inuit tribe in the
United States. That said, they live on The Big Diomede Island in Russia and
Greenland in Denmark. The most amazing thing about the Inuit
tribe is that they survive the extreme environmental condition in the
Arctic area. The Inuit people do not acknowledge themselves as being part of a
nation or a tribe. The emphasis for them is always more on locality and family
rather than any territorial and land associations.
Inuit Tribe: Misconception
Even
though long believed so, the Inuit tribe actually
is distinct racially from the Indians of North America. The Inuit tribe is closely related to the eastern
Asian Mongolians. The languages of Inuit-Aleut used by the tribe are not
related to any groups of the American Indian languages. Besides known as the
Aboriginal Canadians in Canada, with Yupik and Inuit people of the Alaska
region included, the term Eskimo is very popular in the United States when
referring to the Inuit tribe. The term
Eskimo meaning “eaters of raw flesh” in Algonkian, however, is not favorable
for the members of the tribe themselves. The proper and favorable term would be
just “Inuit” meaning “the people” in Inuktitut.
The Inuit tribe has long been major donor of
world’s cultural heritage and is hopefully going to be that way for more
centuries to come.
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