- 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
Rowland had done what no Innuit hunter will attempt—he had fought and killed the Tiger-of-the-North with a knife.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson
Such is the normal winter dress of the Innuit women; and the summer costume, while less characteristic, varies but little in general form from that of the colder months.
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus
To the Innuit the seal is all that flocks and herds, grain fields, forests, coal mines, and petroleum wells are to dwellers in more favored lands.
From Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
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 deer roamed about the rocky coast undisturbed except by the occasional visits of the Innuits.
From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
The Innuits of the South catch nearly the whole of it on its journey north, and they keep it.”
From Red Rooney The Last of the Crew by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
My friends, the Innuits are a great people.
From Red Rooney The Last of the Crew by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
They are of lighter colour, but not perhaps in general more nearly white than the full-blooded Innuits.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
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