FDI - Eskimo

*Ethnie:*	ESKIMO (INUPIAT)
*Language:*	North Alaskan Inupiatun and Northwest Alaskan Inupiatun
*Family:*	Eskimo
*Stock:*	Eskimo-Aleut
*Phylum:*	Eskimo-Aleut
*Macro-Culture:*	Alaska

The Eskimo were and are a loose confederation of family groups ranging from Siberia to Greenland. They crossed into North America from Siberia about 3,000 BC They were, for the most part, arctic maritime hunters. They experienced minimal White contact due to their sparsely populated vast arctic territory.

Present Locations

AK Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Barrow

Bristol Bay Native Corporation, Dillingham

Calista Corporation

Doyon, LImited

NANA Regional Corporation, Kotzebue

Year	*History*
1741	Met by Vitus Bering
1871	US purchased Alaska, Hudson Bay Company began establishing posts
1971	Alaska natives awarded 44 million acres of land and $962.5 million in claims spurred by the Alaska Pipeline, 13 regional corporations formed for administration; similar Original Peoples Entitlement negotiated in Canada

Eskimo Sites

American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut Population http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop-profile/amerind.html

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation http://www.asrc.com/intro.html

Bristol Bay Native Corporation http://www.bbnc.net/

Calista Corporation http://www.calistacorp.com/

CHIEF Christian Hope Indian Eskimo Fellowship http://www.chief.org/

Copper Eskimo http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7838

Counting Eskimo Words for Snow http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/research/eskimo.html

Doyon Limited http://www.doyon.com/

Eskimo http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05539a.htm

Eskimo http://www.nativeamericans.com/Eskimo.htm

Eskimo-Aleut http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0817692.html

Eskimo-Aleut http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0817692.html

Eskimo-Aleut Language Family http://www.native-languages.org/famesk.htm

Eskimo-Aleut Languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo-Aleut_languages

Eskimo Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t155

Eskimo-Indian Games http://www.fairbanks-alaska.com/eskimo-indian-games.htm

Eskimo-Indian Olympics http://www.weio.org/

Eskimo Inuit Art http://www.freespiritgallery.ca/

Eskimo Native Artifacts http://funtongue.tripod.com/alaska/arctic_02.html

Eskimos and Native People of the North http://arcticwebsite.com/eskimolist.html

Eskimo Village Crafts http://members.aol.com/glincoln45/Kipusvik.htm

Eskimo Words and Phrases http://www.arcticwebsite.com/EskimoSpeak.html

Igloo http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/houses/igloo.html

Inuktitut Language http://www.native-languages.org/inuktitut.htm

NANA Regional Corporation http://www.nana.com/

Native Eskimo http://www.old-picture.com/american-adventure/Native-Eskimo.htm

Scientists Discover a New Eskimo Tribe (1911 - NY Times) http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C04E7DF1E31E233A2575AC2A9669D946096D6CF&oref=slogin

Whale Baleen Basket http://www.simplybaskets.com/Baleen_Basket_Ivory_Whale_Tail.html

World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmbHFiiwxA4

Year	AK Population	Source
1700	40,000	NAHDB calculation
1700	40,000	Swanton
1800	40,000	NAHDB calculation
1900	4,000	NAHDB calculation
1981	16,000	BIA
2000	18,000	NAHDB calculation