Category: Inuit/Eskimos...

shopping for soapstone sculptures in the Inuit villages of Baffin Island
spending a winter in an Inuit village in Canada's Northwest Territories or days in an Inuit village above the Arctic circle
folks dressed up like Eskimos from "The Christmas Song"
Inuit, Inupiat, Yupik, and Alutiit are regional variants meaning "the people" or "the real people"; Eskimo is now believed to make reference to snowshoes
the oldest known Eskimo archaeological sites on Saglek Bay, Labrador
snow-block houses called igloos or semisubterranean houses built of stone or sod over wooden or whalebone frameworks
the creation of Nunavut, a new Canadian territory nearly as large as Alaska and California combined, in 1999 which helped to support a revitalization of traditional indigenous culture in North America
I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. (R. LeBlanc)