The Inuit People of the Arctic

The Inuit are one of the many self-designations of the Eskimo people. They are considered to be of Asian decent, which is noticeable from their small hands and feet. Another distinguishing feature is the appreciable percentage of the B blood type, which seems to be totally absent from the American Indian, whom they are usually mistaken to be descendants of (Mastny 25). These Inuit are scattered in small communities across Northern Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, and …

…from the industrialized nations that took so much from them over the years. Bibliography Bibliography 1. Friesen, Max. Resource Structure, Scalar Stress, and the development of Inuit Social Organization. World Archeology: June 1999 pg 21-22. 2. Mastny, Lisa. Coming to Terms with the Arctic. World Watch. Jan 200 v13 pg 24- 36. 3. Thompson, Jack. Homeland for the Inuit: A huge self-governing Arctic Inuit Territory came into being this month to a grand hoopla. Time International. May 3, 1999 v 153 i17 p6 76-77.