Re: [Paddlewise] Offside roll: how useful?

Is there a more better (or more PC) term than Eskimo when you don't know the
tribe or to refer to a group of tribes?


-----Original Message-----
From: Allison Corning <acorning_at_hotmail.com>
To: David_at_wainet.com <David_at_wainet.com>; canoeist_at_netbox.com
<canoeist_at_netbox.com>; paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
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Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 1:45 PM
Subject: RE: [Paddlewise] Offside roll: how useful?


>As an anthropologist I've always been taught that Eskimo is considered
>rather derogatory ( or un-PC, rather) when applied to all tribes and that
>its much better to be more precise and use a name specific to each group of
>people.
>
>

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