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The Inuit are the native peoples of the Arctic land stretching from central Alaska to the northern coast of Canada and onto the island of Greenland. Their ancestors came to North America from Asia in about 3,000 B.C., many thousands of years after the first Indian people arrived on the continent.
Most Alaskans continue to accept the name Eskimo, particularly because Inuit refers only to the Inupiat of northern Alaska, the Inuit of Canada, and the Kalaallit of Greenland, and it is not a word in the Yupik languages of Alaska and Siberia.1  Comparative Yupik and Inuit.owever, the people of Canada and Greenland prefer other names. Inuit, meaning people, is used in most of Canada, and the language is called Inuktitut in eastern Canada although other local designations are used also.