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Aboriginal Inland Eskimo. 



Principal Stem. Side Branch, Aleutians. 



Eskimo Proper. 



Eastern. V. Western. 



III. Mid. Region. IV. Mackenzie Northern. Southern. 



Iglulik, Repulse. 



Bay, Churchill R. River. 1. Pt. Barrow. 6. Tchugazzes. 



I. Greenlanders. 2. Kaviagmute. 7. Kadjagians. 



II. Labradorians. 3. Malemute. 8. Kangindlut. 



4. Unaligmute. 



5. P]kogmute. 

 9. Asiatics. 



With regard to the Greenlanders and Labradorians, as well as the 

 Asiatics/ a little more detail might be employed, although not neces- 

 sary perhaps in a broad general scheme. 



The name Eskimo or Esquimaux, by which these interesting people 

 are commonly designated, is said to be derived from an Algonquin 

 term signifying " eaters of raw tlesh." Charlevoix^ says that the 

 Abenakis of the Grulf of St. Lawrence called the people now known 

 as Eskimo, Eskim,ani%k (eaters of raw flesh). Dr. D. G. Brinton^ 

 states that the word Eskimo comes from an Algonkin word Eskiman- 

 tick, "eaters of raw flesh," and states that the Tuscaroras, in their 

 traditions i-egarding their ai-rival on the coast of Virginia, speak of 

 " a race they found there called Tacci, or Dogi, who were eaters of 

 raw flesh, and ignorant of maize." And the general opinion of wri- 

 ters on the subject is that the word Eskimo or Esquimaux, is of Al- 

 gonkin origin and conveys the idea of "eaters of raw flesh." 



Richardson* attempts to derive it from the French words ceux qui 

 miaux (miaulent), referring to their clamorous outcries on the 

 approach of a ship. Petitot^ says that at the present day the Creos of 

 Lake Athabasca, call them Wis-Kimowok (from Wiyas flesh, aski raw, 

 and mowew to eat), and also Ayiskimiwok (i.e., those who act in secret). 

 In Labrador the English sometimes call the Eskimo, Huskies^ and 



1. Eskimo Dialects, Journ. Anthr. Instit. Gt. B. and Ire. vol. xv., p. 244. See also Amer. 

 Naturalist, April, 1886, p. 403. 



2. Quoted in Petitot, p. ix. 



3. Myths of the New World, p. 214. 



4. Arctic Searching Expedition, p. 203. 



5. Cf. Chambers Encyc. Ed. 1880, vol. iv., p. 165. Article Esquimaux. ' * 



6. Loc. cit. p. ix. 7. Chambers Encyc. Article Esquimaux. See Hind. Trav. in Int. of 

 Labr., loc. cit., and Petitot loc. cit. p. ix. 



