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Inuit
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Inuit: see Eskimo Eskimo , a general term used to refer to a number of groups inhabiting the coastline from the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula in NE Siberia.
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Inuit, Innuit
any of several Native peoples of N America or Greenland, as distinguished from those from Asia or the Aleutian Islands (who are still generally referred to as Eskimos); the preferred term for Eskimo in N America


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The Inuits for example live in the most extremely sun poor environment on the planet, and yet their skin maintains a brownish tone.
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The Inuits first began to practice kayaking for hunting fish and seals and the kayak was their only medium of traversing the icy waters.
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The suicide rate is 11 times higher among the Inuits than in other communities.
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