LETS GET TRIBAL

 Hello ladies and gents this is the Viking telling you that today we are talking about

ESKIMOS

Eskimo or Eskimos are the Indigenous circumpolar peoples who have traditionally inhabited the northern circumpolar region from eastern Siberia (Russia) to Alaska (United States), Northern Canada, Nunavik and Greenland.

The two main peoples known as "Eskimo" are the Inuit (including the Alaskan Iñupiat peoples, the Greenlandic Inuit, and the mass-grouping Inuit peoples of Canada) and the Yupik (of eastern Siberia and Alaska). A third northern group, the Aleut, is closely related to both. They share a relatively recent common ancestor and a language group (Eskimo-Aleut).

The non-Inuit sub-branch of the Eskimo branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family consists of four distinct Yupik languages, two used in the Russian Far East and St. Lawrence Island, and two used in western Alaska, southwestern Alaska, and the western part of Southcentral Alaska. The extinct language of the Sirenik people is sometimes argued to be related to these.

According to recent genomic research, the Chukchi people, from eastern Siberia, are the closest living relatives of the Siberian Yupik and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas generally. There are more than 183,000 people of Eskimo descent alive today, of which 135,000 or more live in or near the traditional circumpolar regions. The NGO known as the Inuit Circumpolar Council claims to represent 180,000 people.

The governments in Canada and the United States have made moves to cease using the term "Eskimo" in official documents, but it has not been entirely eliminated, as the word is in some places written into tribal, and therefore national, legal terminology. Canada officially uses the term "Inuit" to describe the native people living in the country's northernmost sector.

The United States government legally uses "Alaska Native" for the Yupik, Inuit, and Aleut, but also for non-Eskimo indigenous Alaskans including the Tlingit, the Haida, the Eyak, the Tsimshian, in addition to at least nine separate northern Athabaskan/Dene peoples. The designation "Alaska Native" applies to official tribal members only, in contrast to individual Eskimo/Aleut persons claiming descent from the world's "most widespread aboriginal group".

And as always have a chilled day from the Viking.