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Topic	Edmonton Eskimos announce they will be changing team name.
Awesker002 07/16/20 7:36:02 PM #16:	nfearurspecimn posted... Kind of surprised more people didn't know about the word eskimo being a term used to offensively call the Inuit people "eaters of raw meat". I thought it was common knowledge. That's what people thought it meant when they called them that. Apparently it's actually a French word esquimaux that means "one who nets snowshoes". --- Detroit Lions 3-12-1 Keep calm and Kerryon https://imgur.com/EhXehEc <cite>Awesker002 posted [p:942205555] in Edmonton E... [t:78851506]...</cite> <quote>nfearurspecimn posted... </cite> <quote>Kind of surprised more people didn't know about the word eskimo being a term used to offensively call the Inuit people "eaters of raw meat". I thought it was common knowledge.</quote>That's what people thought it meant when they called them that. Apparently it's actually a French word esquimaux that means "one who nets snowshoes". --- Detroit Lions 3-12-1 Keep calm and Kerryon https://imgur.com/EhXehEc</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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