1. (noun) a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (the people')

• eskimo
• esquimau

1. (noun) a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (the people')

• american indian
• indian
• red indian