Eskimos and Inuits are not the same although in Alaska, the Inuit and Yupik people are generally referred to as Eskimos.
The Yup'ik Eskimos and those who care to learn the language.
Eskimos, Laplanders, Inuit, Yupik, Russians
Shirleen Smith has written: 'Bibliography of bowhead whales, whaling, and Alaskan Inupiat and Yupik whaling communities' -- subject(s): Bibliography, Bowhead whale, Bowhead whale hunting, Eskimos, Hunting, Yupik Eskimos
There are some 20 native tribes and cultures in Alaska, mostly originating (long ago) from Asia. Most prominent are the Inupiaq, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian. In Alaska, describing them as "Eskimos" is politically correct. The Canadian and Greenland Eskimos usually insist on being called "Inuit".
There are yupik eskimos all over the North Slope living on the tundra.
Dora Gauthier has written: 'Pataaskaarrluunkuk Negair-llu =' -- subject(s): Yupik Eskimos, Social life and customs, Central Yupik language, Readers
Anna M. Kerttula has written: 'Antler on the sea' -- subject(s): Ethnology, Chukchi, Yupik Eskimos, Yupik Eskimo, Russia (Federation), Ethnic relations
John Kilbuck has written: 'The Yup'ik Eskimos' -- subject(s): Alaska Moravian Church, Diaries, Missionaries, Missions, Social life and customs, Yupik Eskimos
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.
It is not countries that speak Yup'ik, but rather the Yup'ik Eskimos who have grown up in villages or have had the language passed down to them.
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.