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1. A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people')
   "Nunavut is the homeland of the Innuit people";
   - Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit

Derived forms: Innuits

Type of: American Indian, Indian, Red Indian