因纽特人的本意为“真正的人”。北美洲的印第安人把他们称为“爱斯基摩人”。加拿大人称他们为伊努伊时人,表示“人民”之意。因纽特人是世界上最北的居民,大多数居住在北极圈周围的格陵兰岛,美国阿拉斯加的沿岸地区及加拿大魁北克省的北部,还有一部分居住在苏联的西伯利亚东北角的楚利奇半岛和符兰格尔半岛上。 Inuit people’s intention is “real people.” Indians in North America refer to them as “Eskimos.” Canadians call them “Intimates,” meaning “people.” The Inuit are the most northern inhabitants of the world, most of them living in Greenland around the Arctic Circle, along the coast of Alaska in the United States and in the north of Quebec in Canada, and in the part of the Truchy in the northeast corner of the Soviet Union, Siberia And on the Wrangler Peninsula.