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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Sex is Funny to Eskimos
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 06:44:19 EST
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In article <406@3comvax.UUCP> michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil) writes:
>I remember hearing (on a nature program about the far north I believe
>it was, but I don't recall which right now), that only in Canada is the
>term Inuit used for Eskimos.  In Alaska they are still known as Eskimo.  
>
>As far as I'm able to recollect from my memory of the program, Alaskan
>Eskimos do not find this name offensive.  Can someone with more direct
>knowledge of the Eskimo in contemporary Alaska shed more light on this?  

A friend was at the University of Alaska one year.  He told me they called
them Native Americans in all official University material.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720