A Note on the Derivation of the Word "Eskimo" (Inuit)
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Author/Creator
William Thalbitzer
American Anthropologist, vol. 52, no. 4, New Series, October-December 1950, p. 564
Description
Letter argues that the word derives from Excomminqui or "excommunicated ones", and is a name given by 17th century Jesuits who assessed the people of the Labrador coast as "hostile and pagan.".