# When and how did "Inuit" come to supplant "Eskimo?"

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 4, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-did-inuit-come-to-supplant-eskimo/302310 "2005-05-04T01:13:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-and-how-did-inuit-come-to-supplant-eskimo/302310/21 "2005-05-05T13:19:45Z")

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In my 8 years living in Canada’s (sub-)Arctic, I heard exactly one Inuit person refer to himself as Eskimo, one time. He then looked embarassed that he’d said it front of a _kallunaaq_.

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