Inupiat Heritage Center was created in 1999.
The address of the Inupiat Heritage Center is: , Barrow, AK 99723
The web address of the Inupiat Heritage Center is: www.nps.gov/inup
Eskimos or Inuit-Yupik people have traditionally lived in the regions from Siberia , across Alaska, Canada and Greenland. There are several groups referred to as Eskimo, which are Yupil, Inupiat and Aleut.
The term, 'eskimos' or 'esquimaux' was a word in other American aboriginal languages meaning 'eaters of raw meat'. 'Eskimo' is taken to be a bad word in Greenland and other places. The people called themselves, 'Inupiat', 'Yupik', and 'Aleut'. The Aleuts gradually moved east, and lost the common languages used by the Yupik and Inupiat. In time, the word, 'Eskimo' in the Alaska area came to mean both the Yupik and the Inupiat to outsiders.
There is no real term that describes both. They are both very different.
Eskimo is not a language. The people known as Yupik, Inupiat, and Aleut speak many languages.
Many cultures and groups live in the lands surrounding the Arctic Ocean. Among these are the Eskimo (comprised of the Inuit, Inupiat, Yupik and several other groups), who range from Alaska to Canada and Greenland, the Saami (previously called the Lapps) of Scandinavia, the Nenets of Northwest Russia, the Sakha (Yakut) of Russia and the Chukchi of Siberia.
The Southeast Coastal Indians (Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian). The Athabascans (Cree). The Aleuts. The Eskimos (Inupiat and Yup'ik).
Catherine Swan Reimer is a professor of history at Oakland University. She has written articles and books on various topics in American history, particularly focusing on women's history, labor history, and the history of the Midwest.
The Mahlemut tribes of Inupiat people of Alaska bred the malamute to aid them with their hunting and with transportation of heavy loads. This lead to the name of malamute.
Harry Brower has written: 'The whales, they give themselves' -- subject(s): Inupiat, Biography, Social life and customs, History, Whaling, Whaling masters, Fishing