it properly refers to any Eskimo group, not only the Inuit; and (b) its use is widespread in Native communities in Alaska.) This is a list of lexemes rather than of words. Roughly, a lexeme can be ...

I was sitting last July with an Inupiaq (Eskimo) friend in the deserted village site of Point Hope, Alaska, while he searched for trade beads in a spot where he had found a British naval button ...