Eskimo Extinction
On my way back to the office after lunch today, I listened to a fun show on our local radio station called Strange Wine with Carla Heine. She always tells interesting stories about our towns past, and usually runs off onto some interesting tangents. Today I learned about 4 things from her and none of them had anything to do with wine or the wine country. Like this:
Eskimo's don't want to be called Eskimo's anymore. They want to be called Inuits instead because in Native American, "eskimo" means "cannibal".
New meaning to the whole Eskimo Pie thing, eh? I guess that's what happens when you live in the Circumpolar Region. (Sorry. Pole jokes are funny to first graders.)
If you're interested, I read a pretty good book by James Michener about Inuits called, "Alaska". It's a pretty long book, but if you like that kind of thing, pick up a copy. I really liked it.
3 comments:
Polar express?
...to the North Pole.
Ok Colonel, this must stop.
Read Farley Mowat. He's a quintessential writer on the whole Inuit experience. He's a Canadian old grit.
Did you know Carla Heine once lived on opal mine in Lightning Ridge, Australia?
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