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The number of Eskimos: an Arctic enigma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Robert M. Bone
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Eskimo-speaking peoples inhabit Arctic lands that extend some 6 400 km longitudinallyfrom Chukotka to Greenland. This enormous territory comes under the administration of four nations: Canada, Denmark, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and United States of America. As citizens of these nations, Eskimos are becoming more and more enmeshed in the cultures and economies of their respective industrial societies, with the result that, as in other underdeveloped regions of the world, their numbers have increased markedly in therecent past

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Polar Record , Volume 16 , Issue 103 , January 1973 , pp. 553 - 557
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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