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- Organization: University of Maine System
- Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 12:30:28 EST
- From: <IO20905@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- Newsgroups: alt.native
- Subject: Re: Question of Nativity
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- Chris's comments offered (as a sample refutation without flaming)
- remind me of a haunting fogginess in my own thinking.
-
- I'd like to see more information/discussion about the "sources,"
- for lack of a better term, about the "aborigines." I have not studied
- such material, so in my haunting fogginess, I think the Arctic cultures
- may have crossed on the Bering Landbridge, particularly the Eskimo,
- while the other (and multitudinous) Indian group came up from the south.
- I think Indians and Eskimos do not consider each other "kin."
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- The "eskimo," as I understood, was a pejorative term used by the
- Algonquin, meaning "raw meat eaters." The French learned to call such
- people "les esquimaux," which in turn became the English Eskimo.
- The Arctic cultures seemed, historically and still today, to be in
- the minority, even among the Indians who had/have so much traffic with
- Euro- Anglo- settlers of America. The distinctive Arctic cultures
- seem to be lost amid the Euro- Anglo- concept of "Native Americans."
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- Comments, reactions, historical information welcome.
-
- Karen
- io20905@maine.maine.edu
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