Eskimo a general term used to refer to a number of groups inhabiting the coastline from the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula in NE Siberia.

A number of distinct groups, based on differences in patterns of resource exploitation, are commonly identified, including Siberian, St. Lawrence Island, Nunivak, Chugach, Nunamiut, North Alaskan, Mackenzie, Copper, Caribou, Netsilik, Iglulik, Baffinland, Labrador, Coastal Labrador, Polar, and East and West Greenland.

Since the 1970s Eskimo groups in Canada and Greenland have adopted the name Inuit, although the term has not taken hold in Alaska or Siberia.

http://www.crystalinks.com/eskimos.html

interesting

so is inuit the new name

I find that the Inuit name is about a thousand years old. It was recently that they becasme known as Eskimo.
Kat

By the way...very interesting read about how they lived and live. The whys of the way they look and their stature.
Kat

if you change eskimo

in the above link to inuit

really a lot of good info

adj....wanna wrestle?? I have about had it with all this thread chasing. It caused me to overcook my dinner as well, as I am getting my threads cornfused.
Kat