>> ^oOPonyOo:

Word to the Kanuck comments. Running into this guy makes me late for work somedays.
Koana = thank-you.


Koana

>> ^quantumushroom:

I tried dancing with an Eskimo chick but she wasn't Inuit.


Boo and yay at the same time =)

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>> ^oOPonyOo:

Word to the Kanuck comments. Running into this guy makes me late for work somedays.
Koana = thank-you.


I was totally goint to leave them hanging... potentially forever.

>> ^therealblankman:

Here's a personal confession.
I was only 19 years old when I went up to the NWT to work at the Hudson's Bay Store (yes, it was still The Bay back then). I kept seeing signs all over the place signed "Koana/ᖁᐊᓇ", such as "Please take off your boots before coming into the break room- Koana/ᖁᐊᓇ" or "No T-Shirt, No Shorts, No Toque, No Service - Koana/ᖁᐊᓇ" Being new there, I asked one of the other staff members who "Koana" was.
I was so young and naive, and I've never gotten over the embarassment.


Well?

Wow, I forgot about that one. Usually seen only in February. Louis Riel Day is the traditional date set for t-shirts and shorts in these here parts.

>> ^Mashiki:

>> ^jqpublick:
This makes Winnipeg feel positively balmy. For those of you who don't know, this video shows the only two ways Canadians are allowed to walk. It's the law!

Hey you forgot to mention the third way. It's allowed, but only under certain circumstances. It's shorts and short-sleeves, and it has to be snowing outside.

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>> ^jqpublick:

This makes Winnipeg feel positively balmy. For those of you who don't know, this video shows the only two ways Canadians are allowed to walk. It's the law!


Hey you forgot to mention the third way. It's allowed, but only under certain circumstances. It's shorts and short-sleeves, and it has to be snowing outside.

Hello. @dotdude suggested this vid of @Throbbin's may interest you, and reading your info above I think so too. Elisapie Isaac is an Inuk Singer from Nunavik (Northern Quebec), and she's pretty good too:

http://videosift.com/video/Elisapie-Isaac-Turning-My-Back-Offical-Video

"Elisapie Isaac is an Inuk Singer from Nunavik (Northern Quebec)." I'm more liberal just for reading this title. Nice track!

I wasn't faulting anyone for not knowing he's Inuk, my comment was more of a disagreement with your characterization of "eskimo" as a racial slur.>> ^kir_mokum:

>> ^nanrod:
Are youse guys really lecturing Throbbin on the use of the term Eskimo. Why don't you ask him instead, he is after all an Inuk. And while Eskimo has become a passe term in Canada it is still commonly used in Alaska. And while the Unuit people may find offensive meaning in the term it has hardly been used as a racial insult. For the most part it has been used as a generic term to describe all Arctic peoples by people who had no idea of its real meaning.

you can't really fault anyone on that since it's not exactly self evident info.

>> ^Throbbin:

While I'm not crazy about the word 'Eskimo' (it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted), we do use it amongst ourselves.
As for others using it - a friend of mine once asked an Inuk Elder what he thought about the word. The Elder responded that we never asked white people what they wanted to be called (we call them Qallunaq), so why should we get upset about what people call us?



Awesome post. This needs to be re-read again. A word is not derogatory unless it is meant to be so. There are words for other cultures everywhere on the planet. Someone should see what Russia and China have decided to call peoples living in the Siberian Tundra. Same situation?

Eskimo in Canada became a political hot button issue, but the word was not meant to be offensive. It is mildly like the usage of Indian in place of Native Americans. All Indians I know do not mind; if they do they tell you what they prefer (Apache, Ute, etc...).

Go compare the history with "Eskimo" and bigotry. Then look up any of the rest that are very well known biased, derogatory, racial slurs, and more...like: Ni;#er, Uncle Tom, Aunt Jemima, Apple (Indian (or N.A.) that acts white), and ethnic slurs across the world.

That's probably the coolest thing I've read in a long time

In reply to this comment by Throbbin:
While I'm not crazy about the word 'Eskimo' (it's actually a Cree word that the French adopted), we do use it amongst ourselves.

As for others using it - a friend of mine once asked an Inuk Elder what he thought about the word. The Elder responded that we never asked white people what they wanted to be called (we call them Qallunaq), so why should we get upset about what people call us?

>> ^nanrod:
Are youse guys really lecturing Throbbin on the use of the term Eskimo. Why don't you ask him instead, he is after all an Inuk. And while Eskimo has become a passe term in Canada it is still commonly used in Alaska. And while the Unuit people may find offensive meaning in the term it has hardly been used as a racial insult. For the most part it has been used as a generic term to describe all Arctic peoples by people who had no idea of its real meaning.


you can't really fault anyone on that since it's not exactly self evident info.