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| | First Nations: Inuit, Arctic Peoples |
 | | Inuit people were relocated to this harsh environment by the Canadian government to "stake a claim" against the aggressive U.S. building there. | | | Canadian Inuit Since World War II -- A map-illustrated essay by Paula Giese of Canada's cynical use of Inuit people as human land-stakes. | | | NTI Nipisi article - August 1995 -- Nunavut Tungakvut (Inuit-controlled corporation which is carrying out negotiations for the eastern Arctic Inuit regarding the political changeovers and land claim) criticizes "Footprints in the Snow", making some counter-proposals. |
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http://www.kstrom.net/isk/canada/images/can_arct.htm
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| | Aleut/Inuit/Eskimo Religion - Godulike - An Irreverent Look at the Faith Industry |
| | The new owners then further eroded the Inuit way of life by bringing in several versions of Christianity, introducing mechanisation to the fishing an canning industries, finding gold with its bloody and heart-breaking consequences and eventually discovering one of the largest natural oil and gas reserves in the world. | | | Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit | | | Who are these people and what do they believe in? |
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http://www.godulike.co.uk/faiths.php?chapter=4&subject=who
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| | Talk:Inuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Even among the Inuit who did use this practice, killing an elderly family member without the justification of severe necessity - not merely the existence of a burden - constituted murder. | | | I have been led to understand that there were numerous groups that were/are Inuit, but with variations of culture and language, e.g. | | | Infanticide was also more commonplace than geronticide - which has also generally been true of all human societes. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Inuit
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| | Encyclopedia: Aleut language |
| | Rasmus Christian Rask Rasmus Christian Rask (November 22, 1787 - November 14, 1832), Danish scholar and philologist, was born at Brandekilde in the island of Funen or Fyn in Denmark. | | | Within the Eastern group are the dialects of Unalaska, Belkofski, Akutan, the Pribilof Islands, Kashega and Nikolski. | | | Aleut is alone with Eskimo in the Eskimo-Aleut group. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Aleut-language
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| | A partially submerged continuation of the Aleutian Range, they separate the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean. | | | Aleut is the language of a few thousand people, and Eskimo is native to over 100,000 people. | | | Like the Eskimo, the Aleuts are racially similar to Siberian peoples. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=Inuit-Aleut
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| | NATIVE_INUIT |
| | In fact, the Inuit are closely related to the Mongolian peoples of eastern Asia. | | | Inuit simply means 'The People' in Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit and Inuit is the name they wish to be known by. | | | This page has been created to help educate people as to who the Inuit are and to help build an appreciation for these wonderful people and their amazing artistic ability. |
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http://www.violettanet.it/links/INUIT.htm
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| | PHILTAR - Traditional religions/Tribes/Aleut/Inuit |
| | Introduction to the history, social groups and beliefs of the Inuit. | | | A useful succinct introduction to the history and religion of Aleut culture. | | | Provides a political focus for the Inuit of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. |
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http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/regional/north-america/traditionalreligions/tribes/aleutinuit.html
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| | Kayaking -- Information and Resources about Inuit Kayaks |
| | The Atlas of Canada - Inuit Population, 1996 | | | A non-profit organization, representing the Inuit of Baffin Island, Canada. | | | Submitting an article about Inuit Kayaks with a link back to your site will provide your site with free publicity. |
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http://www.kayakinguniverse.com/inuitkayaks
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| | MSN Encarta - Inuit |
| | The Dorset people were overrun by the Thule Inuit, who by ad 1000 to 1200 had reached Greenland. | | | The languages of the Inuit peoples constitute a subfamily of the Inuit-Aleut (Eskimaleut) language family. | | | Yupik languages are spoken by about 17,000 people, including some 1,000 in the former Soviet Union. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761561130
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| | East Asian Studies 210 Notes: Eskimo/Aleut |
| | The clan elder was a man, and his sons and nephews were privileged in the group. | | | (These islands have been unpopulated until the Russians imported Aleuts there in the 19th century.) The term Aleut was brought by the Russians, probably by extending the Kamchatka village name of Alyut eastward (the Koraks who lived there, called Alyutor, were marine hunters like the Aleuts). | | | Most Aleuts live in the Alaskan Aleutian Island chain, but a small group live on Russia's Commander Islands (Bering Island and Copper Island) off the eastern coast of Kamchatka. |
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http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/aleut.htm
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| | Tribes |
| | Before 1741, the year Vitus Bering 'discovered' Alaska, it has been estimated by historians that the Aleut population was at least at about 16,000 people. | | | First Nations: Inuit, Arctic Peoples Links to sites with information about the Inuit. | | | Those homes were in some cases large enough to house as many as 40 to 50 people and had entrances from the roof. |
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http://www.fluffy.demon.nl/arctic/arctri.htm
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| | Aleut |
| | The Aleuts, who were skillful hunters of sea mammals, were exploited by the fur traders. | | | The native people, known as Aleuts, belong to the Eskimo-Aleut language family and are generally classified ethnologically as Native North Americans. | | | There may also have been cultural links with Siberian groups. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/realm/shades/nativeamericans/aleut.htm
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| | Sedna, Inuit Goddess of Sea Animals--Sedna Inuit Eskimo Aleut Eskimo gods and goddesses Inuit gods and goddesses Native ... |
| | For the Iglulik Inuit of Baffin Island She is Uiniyumayuituq or Unigumisuitok, "The One Who Did Not Want a Husband". | | | Sedna is the Inuit or Eskimo goddess of the animals of the Sea, who is considered malevolent to humans, and greatly feared. | | | The word Inuit, which is what the Eskimos call themselves, is often translated simply as "the People"; however the singular form, inua, is the word for "soul" or "spirit", giving it a far richer meaning. |
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http://www.thaliatook.com/sedna.html
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Native American - Encyclopedia Article |
| | This suggests that the migrant population, living in Europe at the time of the most recent ice age, adopted a life-style resembling that lived by Inuits and Yupiks in recent centuries. | | | The second immigration wave comprised the Athabascan people, including the ancestors of the Apaches and Navajos; the third wave consisted of the Inuits, the Yupiks, and the Aleuts, who may have come by sea over the Bering Strait. | | | In Alaska, because of legal use in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANSCA) and because of the presence of the Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut peoples, the term Alaskan Native predominates. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/n/native-american.html
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| | The Kayak Building Site |
| | Kayaks were developed by the Inuit and Aleut peoples of arctic Americas and Greenland (popularly known as Eskimos). | | | This is basically the traditional method used by Aleuts and Inuits. | | | These people needed to build a boat with limited materials that would let them paddle in some of the most dangerous waters of the world. |
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http://www.kayakbuilding.com
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| | Eskimo-Aleut languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, recent research suggests that Yup'ik by itself is not a valid node, or, equivalently, that the Inuit dialect continuum is but one of several languages of the Yup'ik group. | | | Also, the Alaskan-Siberian dichotomy appears to have been geographical rather than linguistic. | | | Traditionally, the Eskimo languages family was divided into Inuit and Yup'ik (or Yup'ik-Yuit). |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit-Aleut
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| | Inuit (from Eskimo-Aleut languages) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Aleuts speak two mutually intelligible dialects and are closely related to the Eskimo in language and culture. | | | family of languages spoken in Greenland, Canada, Alaska (United States), and eastern Siberia (Russia), by the Eskimo and Aleut peoples. | | | "Article on historical and cultural information on Labrador Eskimos the descendants of the Thule Inuit the Alaskans who migrated to Canada and Greenland around 1000 years ago. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-75293
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| | Eskimo-Aleut |
| | Mythologies and Legends of the Peoples of the Eskimo-Aleut Language Group. | | | The Shape of Society of the Peoples of the Eskimo-Aleut Language Group. | | | The Art of Tatoo and the People of the Artic (* StandswithFists Sequoyah, Apr 5, 2005 - 00:34) |
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http://www.ancientsites.com/aw/Board/291844
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Inuit-Aleut |
| | The Aleut languages are spoken in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, and also in the nearby Commander Islands, which belong to Russia. | | | Inuit, in turn, is a branch of the Inuit-Aleut family of languages. | | | Various scholars have grouped the Inuit languages in different ways. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/inualeuh.htm
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| | This group of languages is spoken in the polar regions of North America, and western Siberia. | | | Note that the more familiar term 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory by some Native Americans; 'Inuit' is preferred. |
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http://www.wordgumbo.com/ea
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| | Inuit Aleut |
| | It consists of Inuktitut (the languageof the Inuit) and the Aleutlanguage. | | | Inuit-Aleut (also called Eskimo-Aleut, but that name is considered offensive; see Eskimo) is a language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. |
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http://www.therfcc.org/inuit-aleut-86282.html
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| | Alaskan Native - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | They include the Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut peoples. | | | Alaskan Native are Aboriginal Americans who live in Alaska. | | | This short article needs someone to make it better. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Native
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| | The Inuit |
| | Thousands of years before Peary and his expeditions arrived, as far back as 2000 BC, a group of people had been thriving in the harsh polar environment. | | | In the Western Arctic, the region where Peary explored, the Inuit speak Inuktitut which is written with special characters called syllabics. | | | The finest and warmest garments placed two layers of fur back to back, thus fur was on the outside and the inside of the garment next to the wearer's skin. |
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http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/glory/arctic/people.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Aleut |
| | Aleut, Native Americans of the Inuit-Aleut (Ekimaleut) linguistic group and of the Arctic culture area. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571029/Aleut.html
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| | Anthropology |
| | The course examines the focal, theoretical, and topical issues dominating the anthropological study of gender relation in non-metropolitan and non-Western societies. | | | An examination of the cultures and social systems of the Eskimos/Inuits, Aleuts, and North American Indians. |
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http://www.reed.edu/academic/catalog/84.html
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| | Alaska Native Language Center -- Comparative Yupik and Inuit |
| | For example, while Inuit uses umiaq for ‘boat’, Yupik languages use some form of angyaq; while Yupik uses maklak for ‘bearded seal’, Inuit uses ugruk. | | | Lexical change is also encountered and consequently, while two adjacent dialects of Inuit are usually mutually intelligible, speakers from very distant dialects would not easily understand one another. | | | For example, the word for ‘leg’ is iru in all forms of Yupik and niu in Inuit, though both forms come from the same ancient Eskimo word. |
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http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/yupik_inuit.html
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| | Other Native American and Inuit art |
| | The Inuit and Aleut peoples who hunted whales for subsistence and survival never carried on a hunt of the scope that endangered species. | | | I am showing it here as an artifact of destruction, for it was largely the combined massive force and scale of the American, Russian, Norwegian, and Japanese whaling trade, and the use of mechanized hunting methods in the 19th and 20th centuries, which has resulted in the near-extinction of most whale species. | | | I call this "broken whale," because one of its tail flukes was broken in shipping, en route to me. You can see the repair in the picture to the right, on the rear fluke in the foreground. |
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http://www.migrations.com/other.html
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| | Baidarka Mailing List: Re: Aleut paddles? |
| | driftwood, as did the aleuts, and find a source for either seal or walrus | | | My guess is that if the aleuts had found 6061-T6 washed up on the | | | > Aleut and other traditional kayak paddles are really neat, but |
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http://rtpnet.org/robroy/baidarka/1996/Jan/0081.html
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| | Identification of Eastern and Western Arctic cultures (from Arctic) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Once only explorers, traders, and Inuit, or Eskimo, hunters were interested in the vast, icy area at the “top” of the world. | | | In northern North America the forest and forest-tundra modes of subsistence are practiced only by Indian peoples, while coastal and coastal-tundra adaptations are the exclusive preserve of the Inuit and of the Aleut of the northern Pacific islands. | | | Indian cultures are thus essentially tied to the forest, whereas Inuit and Aleut cultures are entirely independent… |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-57858
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| | Amazon.com: NORTHERN TALES: Books |
| | There are lots of stories from the Inuit, Aleut and other such Nations in particular. | | | As with the other Pantheon books, the chapters are divided into major themes including Village Life, How Things Became the Way They Are, Culture Heroes/Tricksters, Shamanism, Animal People, Monsters and Spirit, Hunting Stroies and Marriages Between People and Spirits. | | | In this book, the tales of the Siberian Yukaghir and Chuckchi, Ainu (caucasian natives of Japan) and Native Americans of Alaska and Canada are covered. |
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http://www.bookreviewdatabase.com/book/0679740368/NORTHERN%20TALES/Howard%20Norman/0a
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| | labret inuit |
| | Among the [Inuit] and Aleut bone labrets predominated, though some very precious... | | | and consequently used but one labret, the Aleut and [Inuit] usually... | | | Find the hundreds of labret inuit related websites with our free search service. |
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http://www.piercing-heaven.com/labret_inuit.html
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| | Eskimo-Aleut languages -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | (The language spoken by the Aleut people) Aleut | | | It consists of (Click link for more info and facts about Eskimo language) Eskimo languages (the languages of the (The language spoken by the Eskimo people) Eskimos) and the (Click link for more info and facts about Aleut language) Aleut language. | | | (A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')) Inuit or Inupik |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/es/eskimo-aleut_languages1.htm
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| | Human History Article - "The Atlatl Weapon" |
| | The Inuit and Aleut of the Arctic, the Tlingit peoples of the southern coast of Alaska and northern coast of British Columbia, and some peoples of southeastern United States, Mexico and northern South America, still used the atlatl when Europeans first arrived. | | | In more recent times we know the atlatl was also used for hunting sea mammals, birds and fish. | | | However, in most regions of the New World, the bow and arrow replaced the atlatl. |
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http://rbcm1.rbcm.gov.bc.ca/hhistory/atlatl/atlatl.html
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| | ipedia.com: Eskimo-Aleut languages Article |
| | It consists of Eskimo languages (the languages of the Eskimos) and the Aleut language. | | | It consists of Eskimo languages and the Aleut language. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/eskimo_aleut_languages.html
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| | Aboriginal Planet - Resource Centre - Documents - Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education: Taiwan and Canada |
| | This attention began with a focus on the Americas, where the indigenous status of the Indian, Inuit and Aleut peoples could not be doubted. | | | But western commentators, non-governmental organisations and intergovernmental bodies have applied the terminology far beyond the Americas. | | | For the last thirty years "indigenous peoples" have become more and more a focus of international attention. |
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http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/aboriginalplanet/750/resource/canada/documents/sanders-en.asp
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| | Alaskan Inuit Artifacts |
| | Ivory work is most easily associated with the Inuit, but they were equally skilled at basketmaking. | | | As many of our artifacts are identified only as "Eskimo", we have combined the art of these Arctic peoples into this category. | | | The Alaskan Inuit live in western Canada and Alaska. |
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http://www.beloit.edu/~museum/logan/catalog/namerica/arctic/alaska/index.htm
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| | Arctic FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about the Arctic |
| | There are three main groups of Alaska Natives, the Inuit, Aleut, and Indian, while in Russia, there are 16 recognized minority indigenous peoples. | | | The Canadian Arctic has about 50,000 indigenous people, representing 50% of the total population of the area, from three recognized groups: Indian, Inuit, and Métis. | | | In Russia, only 15% or fewer of the inhabitants along the north coast are indigenous people. |
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http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/faq.html
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| | Skin on Frame Kayaks |
| | Skin on Frame is the traditional way the Inuit and Aleut Eskimos made their kayaks. | | | The big advantage for the traditional builders of skin-on-frame kayaks, the Aleut and Inuit residents of the far north, is they could be built with the materials on hand. | | | The frame did not require big pieces of wood and could be made with material that drift up on the beach. |
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http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/Building/SkinOnFrame
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| | Eskimo Inuit on Almondnet |
| | Find inuit art and more at Lycos Search. | | | Penman Fairs organise high quality UK art and antiques fairs in London, Bath, Chester and Petersfield, Hampshire. |
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http://www.ncpm.co.uk/popmusic/eskimo_inuit.html
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| | Eskimo People of Siberia & North America - from WorkingDogWeb.com |
| | Aboriginal People of the Russia North: resources on the Aleut, Chukchi, Koryak, Eskimo, Evenk, Itelmen, Nikvh and many more | | | ancestors of the Aleut and Eskimo arrived in North America from Siberia 6,000 years ago, some experts say | | | Arctic peoples of Siberia, Alaska USA, Canada and Greenland, known today as Yup'ik, Inuit and Inupiaq, with maps, history |
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http://www.workingdogweb.com/Eskimo.htm
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| | Learn about Inuit, Aleut and Indian traditions in five model "villages" ringing a lake. | | | Anchorage, the state's biggest city, is also its largest native village and now, home of the ALASKA NATIVGE HERITAGE CENTER. | | | For 15 years JANOS WILDER, extrovert and French-trained chef, owned Tucson's best restaurant until he lost his lease. |
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http://www.traveltraveltravel.com/wb_th_secus.htm
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| | The comparative work on these languages has largely been restricted to differences in phonology and lexicon, and relatively little has been done on other aspects of the languages, including especially syntax and discourse. | | | The session will present an opportunity for the linguists attending the Inuit Studies Conference to exchange information and ideas relating to the structures of the Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut languages. | | | Round Table Discussion on Comparative Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut Linguistics |
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http://www.uaf.edu/uafrural/ISC/abstracts/WebAbstracts/Anna%20Berge_roundtable%20discussion.html
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| | Aboriginal web links, several educational resources found here. | | | Non native resource, we Sami and the Inuit participate at these conferences. | | | For more Inuit resources see: Nunavik and KNR listings below. |
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http://www.itv.se/boreale/aelmetjh.htm
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| | Painted in black, green and red, with vegetable fibre used for feathers. | | | The majority of the Native American - Woodland, Plains and Inuit - artefacts in the Museum's collection are excluded. | | | Flat, rectangular bag made of mammal gut, striped grey and white, with strips of embroidered decoration along top and lines of fine hair strands and dyed tufts. |
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http://www.ncl.ac.uk/hancock/publications/ocean/29NAMER.htm
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| | Alaska Natives |
| | However, in Alaska, Eskimo is still actively used to distinguish this population from the Aleut and other Native groups such as Athasbascan-speaking Indians of central and northern Alaska; along with the Tlingit and other tribes from Alaska's Southeast. | | | Today, the more common usage in Canada and Greenland is Inuit. | | | Alaska Natives include three distinct cultural groups:Eskimo [or Inuit], Aleut, andIndian. |
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http://borealis.lib.uconn.edu/ArcticCircle/SEEJ/Landclaims/alaskanative.html
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