Are native peoples of Greenland also called Eskimos?

Question

I know that the Inuit people of North America are often called Eskimos, but were the peoples of Iceland, Greenland and other Artic regions also refered to by that name?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by "native peoples". Native means "born in", so all Greenlanders born in Greenland are "native peoples". And, certainly, most Greenlanders are not descendants of Inuits.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/n...

na·tive

–adjective

6. born in a particular place or country: a native New Yorker.

Answer 2

Yes they are eskimo but they preferred "Inuit" and in Canada as well, and in Alaska Eskimo, they called "Inupiaq" themselves and sometimes "Eskimo" and No eskimo in iceland, Eskimo live in Siberian Asian, Alaska, Canada and Greenland

Early Palaeo-Eskimo cultures

The prehistory of Greenland is a story of repeated waves of Palaeo-Eskimo immigration from the islands north of the North American mainland. As one of the furthest outposts of these cultures, life was constantly on the edge and cultures have come and then died out during the centuries. Of the period before the Norse exploration of Greenland, archaeology can give only approximate times:

    * The Saqqaq culture: 2500–800 BC (southern Greenland).

    * The Independence I culture: 2400–1300 BC (northern Greenland).

    * The Independence II culture: 800–1 BC (far northern Greenland).

    * The Early Dorset or Dorset I culture: 700 BC–AD 200 (southern Greenland).

There is general consensus that, after the collapse of the Early Dorset culture, the island remained unpopulated for several centuries.

The first humans are thought to have arrived around 2500 BC. This group apparently died out and were succeeded by several other groups migrating from continental North America. To Europeans, Greenland was unknown until the 10th century, when Icelandic Vikings settled on the southwestern coast. This part of Greenland was apparently unpopulated at the time when the Vikings arrived; the direct ancestors of the modern Inuit Greenlanders are not thought to have arrived until around 1200 AD from the northwest. The Norse settlements along the southwestern coast eventually disappeared after about 500 years. The Inuit thrived in the icy world of the Little Ice Age and were the only inhabitants of the island for several centuries. Denmark-Norway nonetheless claimed the territory, and, after centuries of no contact between the Norse Greenlanders and their Scandinavian brethren, it was feared that the Greenlanders had lapsed back into paganism; so a missionary expedition was sent out to reinstate Christianity in 1721. However, since none of the lost Norse Greenlanders were found, Denmark-Norway instead proceeded to baptize the local Inuit Greenlanders and develop trading colonies along the coast as part of its aspirations as a colonial power. Colonial privileges were retained, such as trade monopoly.

Answer 3

The first people of Greenland were the Saqqaq (2500-800 BC).  They were followed by the Dorsets.  Supposedly, they were giants who were scared off by the smaller Inuits.  The Thule, cousins of the Inuits, replaced the Dorsets.  Later, came the Norse, Innu and Beothuks.  The Inuits outlasted them all.