In Canada that's what we've always been told: Eskimo means 'eater of raw meat'. Regardless of the (inaccurate) etymology, it's not the Inuit's name for themselves and they do see it as a slur here.
According to her replies, she'd also consider "Inuit" a slur. She wants you to call her people the First People (or the Indigenous Peoples).
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I *think* she meant 'if you don't know what community a person is from'. In general, First Nations, Métis, and the Inuit see themselves as distinct groups in Canada, with numerous individual Nations within each.
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And I was told don't eat yellow snow cuz thats where the Eskimo go. Seriously they've been Eskimo all my life it wasn't until the age every thing offends me culture that it changed to inuit. Colonizers seriously? Yeah we just moved took over the frozen lands they call home.
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As for "eaters of raw meat" would be a statement of fact not derision. Because thats what muktuk is raw seal blubber. There sure isn't any vegetables up there wood is scarce up past the treeline.
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true, but from a western perspective eating raw meet has been seen as 'savage', and that's where it becomes problematic.
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