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What does gussaks mean?

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Gussaq is a white person. It is a Yup'ik Eskimo word (kinda slangy) for somebody who isn't Eskimo. It comes from "Cossack" since the first Europeans to come in contact with the Native people in Alaska were Russian.

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It is Eskimo for "White Face" or "white person".

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