Question

Read the paragraphs and write a comment on contacts of Eskimos with outside world.
Each wave of activity has drawn the Eskimos into contact with different social and economic
forces. The once isolated northlands have been opened up by air travel, highways, powerful modern
ships, and satellite communications. These changes have produced great strains on the Eskimo way of
life.​

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Alternative Titles: Innuit, Inuit

Eskimo, any member of a group of peoples who, with the closely related Aleuts, constitute the chief element in the indigenous population of the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Canada, the United States, and far eastern Russia (Siberia). Early 21st-century population estimates indicated more than 135,000 individuals of Eskimo descent, with some 85,000 living in North America, 50,000 in Greenland, and the remainder in Siberia.