Today, the two main groups of Eskimos are the Inuit of northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland, and the Yupik of Central Alaska.

The Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Barrow, Alaska, officially adopted " Inuit " as a designation for all Eskimos, regardless of their local usages, in 1977.

Kayaks ( Inuktitut: qajaq ( ᖃᔭᖅ ), Aleut: Iqyax ) were originally developed by the Eskimos ( who call themselves the Inuit ).

* The Jew's Harp has also been introduced to the Inuit people and are played by certain groups such as the Eskimos in Eskimo Point in Canada

500 CE – 1000 CE, successively sweep Arctic North America while having little genetic impact on Native American populations further South, that presumably have origins that date back to the initial colonization of the Americas by modern humans from Asia ( who are the first hominins to live there ), and ancient DNA shows genetic continuity from the Thule to modern Inuit ( whose genetics are remarkably homogeneous ), dominated by the A2a, A2b, and D3 mtDNA haplotypes, while " Haplotype D2 ( 3 %), found among modern Aleut and Siberian Eskimos, was identified at a low frequency in the modern samples but not the ancient.

) In addition, it is found among a small number of food-foraging peoples ( such as the! Kung tribe of Africa and the eponymous Eskimos / Inuit ).

The Eskimos carved Inuit snow goggles from caribou antler, and wood and shell, to help prevent snow blindness.

His fieldwork had resulted in the first detailed information on the life and culture of the Copper Inuit, the so-called " blond Eskimos ".

Although they had no collective name, the various groups of Inuit that made use of native copper for tools have since become known as Copper Inuit and are the same people that Vilhjalmur Stefansson called the Blond Eskimos.

Besides this there many Aboriginal languages of Canada which are the national langauges of one or more of Canada ' a First Nations groups ( formerly " Indians "), Inuit ( formerly " Eskimos "), and Metis ( mixed First Nations-European people ).

Chief among these are his scholarly government report, " Life of the Copper Eskimos " ( published 1922 ), his ever-popular account of two years with the Copper Inuit, " The People of the Twilight " ( published 1928 ), his definitive and durable " The Indians of Canada " ( published 1932 and now in its seventh edition ), and four scholarly reports on Eskimo Administration in Alaska, Canada, Labrador, and Greenland, plus a fifth report providing an analysis and overview of the four government systems ( published between 1962 and 1968 ).

Kabloona recounts Poncin's solo unsupported journey in the Canadian Arctic near King William Island, Canada, where he lived with the Inuit ( in those days, still generally called the Eskimos ) for about 15 months during the period 1938 to late 1939.

The Athabaskan-speaking Inuit people ( formerly known as Eskimos ) of northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland follow or followed this custom.

* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Frank H. Nowell Photographs Photographs documenting scenery, towns, businesses, mining activities, Native Americans, and Eskimos in the vicinity of Nome, Alaska from 1901-1909.

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos win 48 – 10 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos win 17-9 over the Montreal Alouettes

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos win 20-13 over the Montreal Alouettes

* Grey Cup – Montreal Alouettes won 41-6 over the Edmonton Eskimos

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos won 9-8 over the Montreal Alouettes

* Grey Cup – Montreal Alouettes won 20 – 7 over the Edmonton Eskimos

* Grey Cup – Ottawa Rough Riders win 22 – 18 over the Edmonton Eskimos

* Robert Coles – Eskimos, Indians, Chicanos, vol 4 of Children of Crisis

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos win 26-23 over the Ottawa Rough Riders

* November 24 – the Montreal Alouettes win the 90th Grey Cup game, defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 25-16 at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton.

* Grey Cup – Toronto Argonauts win 43-37 over the Edmonton Eskimos

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos win 33-23 over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

* Grey Cup – Winnipeg Blue Bombers 50-11 over the Edmonton Eskimos

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos won 38-36 over the Toronto Argonauts

* Grey Cup – Hamilton Tiger-Cats won 39-15 over the Edmonton Eskimos

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos won 32-16 over the Toronto Argonauts, the Eskimos ' record fifth consecutive Grey Cup victory.

* Grey Cup – Ottawa Rough Riders defeated the Edmonton Eskimos 16-6.

* Grey Cup – Edmonton Eskimos win 50-27 over the Montreal Alouettes

These former speakers of Sirenik Eskimo language inhabited settlements Sireniki, Imtuk was already a settlement with mixed population, Sirenik Eskimos and Ungazigmit ( the latter belonging to Siberian Yupik ).

The above peculiarities of this ( already extinct ) Eskimo language amounted to mutual unintelligibility even with its nearest language relatives: in the past, Sirenik Eskimos even had to use the unrelated Chukchi language as a lingua franca for communicating with Siberian Yupik.

Kipnuk consists mostly Yupik speaking Eskimos ; the name means a " bend " referring to the bend in the ( Qukaqliq ) Kugkaktlik River where it is situated.

Most of the population is made up of Yupik Eskimos, Aleuts, and Athabascan Indians.

The most numerous of the Siberian Yupik peoples, the Chaplino Eskimos ( Ungazigmit ) had a round, dome-shaped building for winter.

Sireniki Eskimos also live in that area, but their extinct language, Sireniki Eskimo, shows many peculiarities among Eskimo languages and is mutually unintelligible with the neighboring Siberian Yupik languages.

Thus, the language is extinct: nowadays all Sireniki Eskimos speak a Siberian Yupik language or Russian.

Thus, any external contacts required using a different language for Sireniki Eskimos: they either resorted to use of lingua franca, or used Siberian Yupik languages ( being definitely a mutually unintelligible, different language for them, not just a dialect of their own ).

On September 8, 1974, Tom Wilkinson, quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos, unsuccessfully attempted a drop kick field goal in the final seconds of a 24-2 romp over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

This enabled the eskimo roll to become the preferred method of regaining posture after capsizing, especially as few Eskimos could swim ; their waters are too cold for a swimmer to survive for long.

** Warren Moon, American football player and quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos ( Canada )

The Edmonton Eskimos are notable for qualifying for the CFL playoffs every year from 1972 to 2005, a record in North American pro sports.

The Eskimos are also notable for being the first crossover team to ever win the divisional semifinal game.

* Josh Ranek — running back for the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos ; formerly of Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Renegades

Jackie Parker of the Eskimos recovered the bouncing ball on the 20 and ran 90 yards for what would prove to be the game-winning touchdown.

The name Akiak means " the other side ", since this place was a crossing to the Yukon River basin during the winter for area Eskimos.

St. Michael was also a popular trading post for Eskimos to trade their goods for Western supplies.

The relationship with the community of Nuiqsut is such that the oil company using the land, considered to be the property of the native Nuiqsut residents ( Inupiat Eskimos ), pay dividends to residents in exchange for use of the land.

The old site of Alatna was a traditional trading center for Athabascans and Eskimos.

The old site of Alatna was a traditional trading center for Athabascans and Eskimos.

* E. J. Underwood, professional football player for the Cleveland Gladiators ; played for Edmonton Eskimos New York Jets, Buffalo Bills

* Kenny Pettway — Linebacker for the Edmonton Eskimos

Darren Paul Flutie ( born November 18, 1966 in Manchester, Maryland ) is a former Canadian football wide receiver for the BC Lions, Edmonton Eskimos, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

There, he played football for the University of Alberta Golden Bears and, in 1949 and 1950, the Edmonton Eskimos.

Facing the Argonauts in the 9th Grey Cup, the Eskimos became the first western team – and the first from outside Toronto or Hamilton – to compete for the trophy.

Upset at losing the 1977 game under poor weather conditions, the Eskimos hoped for a rematch with Montreal in 1978.