The Kount encounters Maaki (Beautiful Eskimo)
It's 5:40 A.M. My Apartment Dorval Quebec, Canada
One of the pleasant surprises I have experienced here is meeting
some of the Inuit people. I had no idea that the Inuit people
came down from the North as often as they do. I really guess I
didn't think about it much. After talking to them, they remind
me some of the Native Americans in Oklahoma except they have retained
their language. I am embarrassed to say when I first saw them
I thought they were Chinese. Oops not thinking again.
They are a proud but a separate part of this society. Unfortunately
I don't know much about the history of these people and their
relationship to the French and English. They have their own language
and they all speak it but they seem to know English better than
French. One young lady told me that they don't like being called
Eskimo. She said the word Eskimo comes from the white man and
it means meat eater. They tell me that igloos are still the rave
up north and one lady told me of encounters with polar bears.
Yikes!
Stay warm,
The Kount
A new note: (11-02-2000) The word Eskimo comes from other indian tribes. In Algonquian it was Esquimau ... and in Cree Askimowew
The picture is of Maaki, a Beautiful Inuit Lady …