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Subject: Re: Re: Sex is Funny to Eskimos
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> A friend was at the University of Alaska one year.  He told me they called
> them Native Americans in all official University material.
> 
Same at Dartmouth College, founded as an "Indian school".

On the other hand, many of us are native Americans without being (closely)
related to the native American peoples.
The term Eskimo is useful to distinguish that population from the
Athabascans & Algonquins and the Aleutians.