Eskimo kissing of this convention from the film. Scenes involving Eskimo kissing have been featured in Western media, including episodes of United States TV shows, such as "The Simpsons" and "South Park." In a sketch on "Chappelle's Show," Eskimo kissing was portrayed as a stereotypically white gesture. In addition to that, the British rock band "The Kooks" has a song named "Eskimo Kiss" on their album "Junk of the Heart". Eskimo kissing An Eskimo kiss, also called nose kiss or nose rub, is the act of pressing the tip of one's nose against another's nose usually interpreted as a friendly greeting gesture
Paleo-Eskimo Paleo-Eskimo The Paleo-Eskimo (also pre-Thule or pre-Inuit) were the peoples who inhabited the Arctic region from Chukotka (e.g., Chertov Ovrag) in present-day Russia across North America to Greenland prior to the arrival of the modern Inuit (Eskimo) and related cultures. The first known Paleo-Eskimo cultures developed by 2500 BCE, but were gradually displaced in most of the region, with the last one, the Dorset culture, disappearing around 1500 CE. Paleo-Eskimo groups included the Pre-Dorset; the Saqqaq culture of Greenland (2500 – 800 BCE); the Independence I and Independence II cultures of northeastern Canada and Greenland (c. 2400 – 1800 BCE