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The Eskimo's main source of income today is money from a job or ivory, bone, baleen and wood carvings and hunting for food. Before money, it was always hunting, fishing and gathering plants such as greens, roots and berries. Up to this date in all the Eskimo villages we still hunt and gather for most of our food. It is much harder to get store bought food in the in the native villages compared to the cities. The items in the villages cost twice as much or more compared to the cities. The job opportunities are mush smaller in the villages compare to in the city.

Just for the add. I am an Eskimo myself from St Lawrence Island, Alaska and I grew up in a village of Savoonga, Alaska with 750 Siberian Yupik Eskimos and I am now living in the south central Alaska in the city of Anchorage.

Most of the villages live off of welfare paid by the government.

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