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Are Eskimos and Native Americans related?

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Yes, they are related. It is thought from genetic and other evidence that the Native people from Alaska, Canada and Greenland in the north to Tierra del Fuego in South America came in at least three waves. Eskimo-Aleut-Inuit-Yupik speakers are the last wave and they derive about 57% of their DNA from First Americans. read more

Eskimo-Aleut-Inuit-Yupik speakers are the last wave and they derive about 57% of their DNA from First Americans. They live in a swath from Siberia to Greenland across the arctic. The people related to the Inuit on the Siberian side are now seen as coming from back migration. It is not the source of of the people whose culture comes from Alaska. read more

Southerners have complied beautifully, but at last they are running up against peoples, related to Inuit, who insist that they are Eskimos. The confusion derives from this sticky fact: Inuit are not Eskimos, and Eskimos are not Inuit. read more

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