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Suckemo
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a member of a large group of North American aborigines inhabiting the Arctic and northern coastal areas from Greenland to Siberia.
Quotations
1852
The sailors of the Hudson's Bay Company's ships, and the Orkney men in the employment of the Company, still call them [Eskimos] Suckemos or Seymos.
1869
The seamen of the Hudson's Bay ships, who trade annually with the natives of Northern Labrador and the Savage Islands, have long called them "Seymos" or "Suckemos," names evidently derived from the cries of "Seymo," or "Teymo," with which they greet the arrival of the ships; they speak of themselves simply as "Innuit," or men.