The American Eskimo comes in three different sizes: standard, mini, and toy. In the chart below, the high number represents the standard size, while the smaller figure represents the typical size of the toy dog. The mini is somewhere in between. Height (Male) 9 to 19 inches Height (Femal...
Eskimo men endured long dark winters in the glowing warmth of a sweat lodge while carving spears or knotting nets for the coming spring. Pacific Coast Indians, living in the land of plenty with an abundance of game, berries and nuts, had the leisure to be sociable. Pueblo men, with ...
In addition, a number ofNative Americangroups are known better by their Algonquianexonyms, rather than by theirautonym, such as theEskimo(see below),Winnebago(perhaps fromPotawatomiwinpyéko, "(people of the) dirty water"),[4]Sioux(ultimately fromOttawanaadowesiwag),[4]Assiniboine(Ojibweasinii...
The Alaska survey (3,8) was done in March 1958, when it was still winter and the annual dog race (Iditarod) was being run. There were no mosquitoes. Over a 3-wk period, Eskimo and Indian villages were visited, and their native inhabitants were examined during weeks 1 and 3. During ...
(fromaffixationand compounding), where what is a single word translates as a whole sentence in European languages. An illustration fromYupik(Eskimo-Aleut family) is the single wordkaipiallrulliniuk, made up of the pieceskaig-piar-llru-llini-u-k[be.hungry-really-past.tense-apparently-...
(Aleut-Eskimoan)qayaq‘kayak’ (one, singular),qayak‘kayaks’ (two, dual), andqayat‘kayaks’ (plural, three or more). Reduplication, the repetition of all or part of a stem, is widely used to indicate distributed or repeated action of verbs; e.g., in Karuk,imyáhyah‘pant’ is...
Part of the Eskimo’s artistry was his or her ability to neatly piece together small parts to create a whole—and his or her ability to fashion the tools needed to carry out the operation, many of which were works of art themselves. This skill is evident in the region’s most famous ...
See also Eskimo-Aleut languages.) The Indigenous languages of North America are both numerous and diverse. At the time of first European contact, there were more than 300. In the early 21st century 197 Indigenous languages were still spoken in the U.S. and 81 in Canada (with some ...