- a variation of Inuit.
Innuit
Americannoun
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Innuits,
plural
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Innuit
plural
noun
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In my seventy-two years on earth I had never met an Innuit and never imagined that I would.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The word in use among the Eskimos to designate themselves is Innuit, meaning people, or the people, in the sense that in their own estimation they are of more importance than all other peoples.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
W'en I com' way from de Innuit, I fin' um.
From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
Mr. Hall made several sledge excursions with his Innuit friends.
From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
On one I will drive Nunaga away to the far-south, where the Innuit who have much iron dwell.
From Red Rooney The Last of the Crew by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Standing out in the cold talking with the young Innuits had given me a chill.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The life of the Innuits is full of such contradictions.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
We are not the only Innuits in all the land.
From Red Rooney The Last of the Crew by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
In Alaska the Innuits are divided into at least fourteen tribes, speaking as many different dialects, and distinguished by such names as Ugalakmuts, Kaniagmuts, etc.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
To be caught in the Divide in the winter means to be snowed in as completely as the Innuits of upper Greenland.
From The Voice of the Pack by Edison Marshall
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