1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ESKIMO, ESKIMOS or ESQUIMAUX (a corruption of the Abnaki Indian Eskimantsic or the Ojibway Ashkimeq, both terms meaning " those who eat raw flesh": they call themselves " Innuit," " the people "), a North American Indian people, inhabiting the arctic coast of America from Greenland to Alaska, and a small portion of the Asiatic shore of Bering Strait. On the American shores they are found, in broken tribes, from East Greenland to the western shores of Alaska — never far inland, or south of the region where the winte…
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