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The word 'Eskimo' comes from a Native American word for 'eater of raw meat'. People living in the Arctic regions are now officially known as the 'Inuit', which means 'people'. They inhabit the extreme climate regions of Northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland and Siberia. Find out more about these people.​

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The people of the Canadian Arctic are known as the Inuit. They used to be called Eskimos, which came from a Native American word for 'eater of raw meat'. Now the Arctic people are officially known as the Inuit, which means 'the people', or singularly, Inuk, which means 'the person'.