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The two largest groups of indigenous people living in the arctic Canadian regions, Alaska, and Greenland are Yupik and Inupiat. The term Inuit is often used to describe both peoples and is commonly accepted in Greenland and Canada but Eskimo is clearer term because the Yupik people do not speak the Inuit language. Both phrases distinguish those people of the arctic regions from Native Americans of more southern regions however the term Eskimo has been degraded in Canadian and Greenlandic areas and is often considered a racial slur.

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