RE: [Paddlewise] Offside roll: how useful?

Actually the term is Inuit (meaning the people).  Canadian Inuit are
offended when you use the word Eskimo for their people.  (Eskimo roughly
translated means raw meat eaters).
:)
Jim Meldrum

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Whiterabbit [SMTP:whiterabbit_at_empowering.com]
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> Subject:	Re: [Paddlewise] Offside roll: how useful?
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> 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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