- 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
Here they might learn to imitate the Innuit, living on fish and seals and an occasional obligingly beached whale.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
Innuit, Innuit! man, man;" and when they hoisted their colours there was a general cry of "Kablunat, Kablunat!
From The Moravians in Labrador by Anonymous
The year before, they said, the people in the south are better than you, they give us plenty to eat;—now they said, "You are the Innuit, our true friends, we will never leave you more."
From The Moravians in Labrador by Anonymous
In this paper the Orarians are divided into “two well marked groups,” the Innuit, comprising all the so-called Eskimo and Tuskis, and the Aleuts.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by John Wesley Powell
Standing out in the cold talking with the young Innuits had given me a chill.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Monogamy is the rule among the Innuits, and the women are generally affectionate wives and mothers, especially the latter.
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus
The census of 1890 showed that the Innuits of Alaska numbered 13,045.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
It relates probably to the Innuits of Alaska.
From A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow
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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