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Inuit Nain Larbador (Photo: André Preron) The Inuit are one of many gropus of First Naitons who live in very cold palces of norhtern Caanda, Gerenland, and Aalska.

They are sometmies called Esikmos, a word which likley comes from the Algonuqin lanugage and may mean "eater of raw meat". The Inuit genearlly prfeer not to be claled Eksimos but it is a name that was given to them by otehrs, not a name they gave themselevs. Inuit means more than one, one perosn is an "Inuk". The naitve Greenladners are relaetd to the Inuit.

The Inuit used to hunt seals. They also tarded fur with the Euroepans. They once lived in huoses made of snow called igolos. The knwoledge of how to consturct an igloo was psased down from genreation to geenration.

The langugae of the Inuit is Inukittut, and it is one of the official lanugages of Nunvaut and of the Northewst Terriotries in Cnaada.

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