'Eskimo' meant 'eaters of raw meat' in
Cree and was the name that the Cree had for the people of the far north, which the
French traders adopted.
The people, a rather distinct racial group and the most widely dispersed aboriginal group in the world, stretching from far eastern Siberia through the Arctic coast of Alaska and Canada all the way to Greenland, call themselves Inuit or Inupiat.