Norwegian Inuits?

[Jake Featherston]

I have, via Google, found several references to an alleged population of Inuits in Norway. A few months ago I came across a reference to Norwegian Inuits on Wikipedia, and I deleted it, because I assumed it was in error. But now I've found a few other people who seem to believe such a population exists (the Wikipedia article on Norway certainly doesn't mention any Norwegian Inuits), for example, one fellow claims his uncle married a Norwegian Inuit. Does anyone have any information, one way or the other, about Norwegian Inuits? Is there some small population of them that arrived presumably from Greenland? Or did the Vikings bring some back with them from Vinland? Anyone?

[shanemac]

I have, via Google, found several references to an alleged population of Inuits in Norway. A few months ago I came across a reference to Norwegian Inuits on Wikipedia, and I deleted it, because I assumed it was in error. But now I've found a few other people who seem to believe such a population exists (the Wikipedia article on Norway certainly doesn't mention any Norwegian Inuits), for example, one fellow claims his uncle married a Norwegian Inuit. Does anyone have any information, one way or the other, about Norwegian Inuits? Is there some small population of them that arrived presumably from Greenland? Or did the Vikings bring some back with them from Vinland? Anyone?


What's an Inuit? Do you mean Eskimos?

[Jake Featherston]

What's an Inuit? Do you mean Eskimos?

I think those terms are pretty much synonymous, yeah.

[shanemac]

I think those terms are pretty much synonymous, yeah.

In Japan I always call other races by their non-reconstructed PC names.

So to me "the Inuit" (if you're really into the PC terminology you don't pluralise the word) are "eskimos". "Native Americans" are "Red Indians", Indigenous Australians are "Abos", "differently abled" people are "handicapped or retarded", "gays" are "homosexuals" etc.

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I have, via Google, found several references to an alleged population of Inuits in Norway. A few months ago I came across a reference to Norwegian Inuits on Wikipedia, and I deleted it, because I assumed it was in error. But now I've found a few other people who seem to believe such a population exists (the Wikipedia article on Norway certainly doesn't mention any Norwegian Inuits), for example, one fellow claims his uncle married a Norwegian Inuit. Does anyone have any information, one way or the other, about Norwegian Inuits? Is there some small population of them that arrived presumably from Greenland? Or did the Vikings bring some back with them from Vinland? Anyone?

Never heard of them, so they don't exist in Norway. They probably means sami people, immigrants that came 500 AC because the climate worsened, meaning that parts of northern scandinavia became unsuted for germanic agriculture.

[Hakluyt]

'Inuit' is not a PC term - it's the name of a specific language group and has been in use since the 18th century. 'Eskimo' is an umbrella-term for all northern indigeneous peoples of Asiatic origin in North America and Siberia.

[Björn]

Gotta be the sami/lapplanders. a friend of mine who is sami hates when people ask her if shes chinese. They look very similar to eskimos, at least to me.

[Hrolf Kraki]

'Inuit' is not a PC term - it's the name of a specific language group and has been in use since the 18th century. 'Eskimo' is an umbrella-term for all northern indigeneous peoples of Asiatic origin in North America and Siberia.

I believe 'inuit' means 'man' in Greenlandic. I was also under the impression that 'eskimo' is a derogatory term that referred to people who eat raw meat.

[Arminius]

I believe 'inuit' means 'man' in Greenlandic. I was also under the impression that 'eskimo' is a derogatory term that referred to people who eat raw meat.

However, linguists now believe the term [Eskimo] is derived from an Ojibwa word meaning "to net snowshoes."[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit

Hakluyt is right, Inuit is specific to languages, where as Eskimo could mean anyone that speaks a language from the Eskimo language family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo-Aleut

[Hakluyt]

Innuit
1765, from Inupik Eskimo inuit "people," pl. of inuk "man."
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Innuit

Eskimo
1584, from Dan. Eskimo or M.Fr. Esquimaux (pl.), both probably from an Algonquian word, such as Abnaki askimo (pl. askimoak), Ojibwa ashkimeq, lit. "eaters of raw meat," from Proto-Algonquian *ask- "raw" + *-imo "eat." The Eskimo people's word for themselves is Innuit "men." Eskimo pie "chocolate-coated ice cream bar" introduced 1921.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=eskimo&searchmode=none

[Hakluyt]

However, linguists now believe the term [Eskimo] is derived from an Ojibwa word meaning "to net snowshoes."[2]
Interesting.

[shanemac]

Well, when I was at school or Uni, and I said "eskimo", liberal teachers like this fag would correct me and say something like "I believe the correct term for that ethnicity is Inuit mmmmkay".

Of course I knew that, but I just liked provoking their predictable liberal reaction. I was the biggest geography nerd in history, and could even name the principal towns and regions that the eskimos inhabited, and their approximate populations and principal economic activities whereas I'd doubt any of the liberal fags even knew what countries they lived in.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bb/DavidVanDriessen.jpg/250px-DavidVanDriessen.jpg

[Felix the Cat]

I believe 'inuit' means 'man' in Greenlandic. I was also under the impression that 'eskimo' is a derogatory term that referred to people who eat raw meat. If the Inuit are men, what does that make non-Inuits?

It seems a term offensive to the Inuit has been replaced by a term offensive to all other peoples