Were the Eskimos peaceful or warriors?

Answer 1

The inuit people, hunted for food and to stay alive. They didn't start wars for no reason, but to keep their land and people. Inuits, lived in the north of America on the coasts of Greenland and Siberia.

Answer 2

It depends. High Arctic Inuits of Greenland and northern islands of Canada were and are probably peaceful, i.e. they do not take part in organized warfare in historical time, did not have any institution of "warrior" etc., however they retain a tradition that they expatriated earlier inhabitants of their homeland (Tinuiit, identified with creators of Dorset archeological culture), probably by fighting (genocide?). Continental Eskimo of Alaska and Siberia (Inupiat, Yupik) were warriors, they fight in interclan wars and with foreign invaders, especially Chukchis who conducted raids across Bering Strait to capture slaves. Especially Yupik have a strong tradition of war ("Bow and Arrow Wars cycle") and stories about famous warriors - champions of their tribes/clans, even pitched battles etc.; these wars were quite cruel by modern standard, with no mercy to civilians (burning of villages, spearing people hiding in tents through their walls, etc.). They even produce and wear armour made of several lammels or lamines of hardened walrus skin, walrus bones etc. and peculiar shields carried straped onto back of warrior (like wings).