Given the sensitivity of the term ‘Eskimo,’ the Inuit population, especially in Alaska, now prefers to ... known as the igloo ...

Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik tribe of Inuit on King William Island, polar explorer Roald Amundsen became an expert igloo builder, even though at ...

Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in the frozen lands of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. The Inuit people are perhaps one ...