DCHP-3

Eskimo Indian

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a member of a large group of North American aborigines inhabiting the Arctic and northern coastal areas from Greenland to Siberia.

See: Eskimo(def. 1)

Quotations

1742
What was still as unpardonable as neglecting the Discovery, was his putting the two Northern Indians ashore on Marble Island against their Inclinations . . . in a very bad Boat he got at Churchill, which they did not know how to manage, in an Island 3 Leagues from their supposed Way, the Eskimay Indians, their Enemies, living upon that Coast.
1848
During one of my national expeditions down the St. Lawrence, I chanced to be wind-bound for a couple of days at the mouth of a river on the north shore, where I found a small encampment of Esquimaux Indians.