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Suckemos,^ and Dall'- says that in Alaska the Tinneh Indians call 

 them Uskeenie (sorcerers). The genei'al appellation of the Eskimo of 

 Greenland, Labrador, Hudson's Bay, etc., is Innuit, {i.e., men, the 

 most frequent tribal name among savage, or primitive peoples.) 

 The Southern (but not the Northern Greenlanders), also call them- 

 selves Karalit (Kalalek), which has been conjectured by some writers 

 to be a corruption of the name " Akraellinja," which the Old Norse 

 discoverers applied to the Eskimo.' The Esquimaux of the Mackenzie* 

 call themselves Tchiglit ; those around the Chui'chill Akut or Agut ; 

 the Aleuts Tagut ; the Tchukatchis Tachut ; the Tuski Tclrnktchit, 

 all of which terms signify men (viri), as Innuit signifies human 

 beings (homines). Designations other than those mentioned above, 

 are simply descriptive, either of locality, or some peculiarity in the 

 manners, customs, etc., of the people specified. The usual termination 

 of these descriptive names is in mint (nieut, mat), which Petitot'' 

 says marks, " residence, possession," and Rink'' defines as " inhabitant 

 of." Thus the people on the Gt. Fish River are called Utkahikaling- 

 meut (people of the stone-kettles) ; the Eskimo near Cape Alexander 

 are termed lumgor-ment (8now Goose ])eople) ; around the Copper mine 

 are the Naggeuktor-meut or " deer horn," Eskimo;^ the Eskimo of 

 Point Barrosv are called Nuiouk-meut, people of the point or cape. 

 The termination niiut is found attached indiscriminately to the name 

 of the residence of any locality, no matter how small or how large tlie 

 community may be. Fifteen or more different tribes (so-called), 

 whose names all end in niiut are met with in Alaska alone, and the 

 same is the case in the far east of the Eskimo territory. 



The general name given by the Eskimo to the Euroi)ean is Kablu- 

 nak (Greenland), Kuppelunet (Church Riv. pi.), Cablunac (Stupart's 

 Bay), Krablun'',it (Mack. R ), Cappelunet (pi.. Church. R. ), Kohlunar 

 (Huds. B. and Cumb. Sd. ), Kablunak (Labrador). This Petitot* trans- 

 lates ' couronn^s,' and says it is derived from krablut (eyebrows) or 

 krablunark (frontal or coronal bone), and thinks the name was given 



1. Richardson, Arctic Searching- Expedition, p. 202. 



2. Proc. Am. .\9S. Adv. Sci. 1869, p. 266. 



3. E. B. Tylor, Journ "\nthr. Inst. Gt. Brit, and Irel. xiii., p. 349. Rink, Danish Greenland, 

 p. 404. 



4. Petitot, loc. cit. p. x. 



5. Loc. cit. p. liv. 



6. Tales and Trad., p. 18. 



7. Sir John Richardson, The Polar Re<rions, 1861, p. 300. 



8. Loc. cit., p. xi. 



