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To: LindyBill who wrote (337913)	12/9/2009 6:10:11 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

So what does Inuit mean? If it doesn't mean Eskimo then what? When will sashimi be banned? Raw fish?

To: LindyBill who wrote (337913)	12/9/2009 8:24:49 PM
From: ManyMoose	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793914

means "raw meat eater." So another word is banned. Why would 'raw meat eater' be considered pejorative, because that is exactly what they did if they had no fuel to cook their food? It's not a racist thing to observe that the arctic cultures were unsurpassed in their ability to survive under conditions that would utterly destroy anyone who didn't follow their methods. On the contrary, it's a very sincere and meaningful accolade.

To: LindyBill who wrote (337913)	12/9/2009 8:46:42 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793914

Count how many times you hear the line "Kids dressed up like Eskimos". this Christmas season. And are they going to have to stop making Eskimo Pies?

To: LindyBill who wrote (337913)	12/9/2009 11:18:29 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

I at least hope the teacher explained to the students why she believes it is a better idea to call them Inuit instead of Eskimo. Origin of the name Eskimo Two principal competing etymologies have been proposed for the name "Eskimo", but the most commonly accepted today appears to be the Montagnais word meaning "snowshoe-netter". The word assime·w means "she laces a snowshoe" in Montagnais. Since Montagnais speakers refer to the neighbouring Mi'kmaq people using words that sound very much like eskimo, Ives Goddard of the Smithsonian Institution has concluded that this is the more likely origin of the word.[5][6] Jose Mailhot, a Quebec anthropologist who speaks Montagnais, however, published a paper in 1978 which suggested that the meaning is "people who speak a different language".[7] Folklore has it that speakers of some Algonkian languages coined the term Eskimo to mean "eaters of raw meat". Linguistic research by anthropologists does not support that etymology, but regardless it is commonly felt in Canada and Greenland that the term Eskimo is pejorative.[1][8][9][10][11] While the majority of academic linguists hold the non-pejorative view of Eskimo, the majority of Inuit people believe the word to be racist, and are similarly supported by Algonkian speakers who see the natural similarity in pronunciation to "he eats raw". While the term's proper etymology continues to be held to be neutral by linguists, Native and Métis groups both inside the Inuit and Cree/Ojibwa peoples insist that the term evolving as presented by linguists does not make sense. Many Native North American peoples used snowshoes, and as such would not likely choose to use their word for snowshoe to describe any other native people. Whatever the truth, the resulting political response to the perception of Eskimo being pejorative has been significant, with The Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Barrow, Alaska, officially adopting Inuit as a designation for all Eskimos, regardless of their local usages, in 1977. en.wikipedia.org