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Inuit

/ˈɪnʊɪt/
/ˈɪnjuɪt/
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Other forms: Inuits

Definitions of Inuit
  1. noun
    a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people')
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    type of:
    American Indian, Red Indian
    a dated term referring to the Indigenous people of North, Central, and South America
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