President Obama signed a bill that removes “Oriental”, “Eskimo” and “Aleut” from two federal laws. The latter two terms do still occur about 100 times in other federal legislation.

The two subsequent migrant groups are the ancestors of the Arctic populations that speak a Na-Dene language or Eskimo-Aleut languages. This research project is considered the “most comprehensive ...

The languages they speak, the Eskimo–Aleut languages, are also very different from those spoken by the American Indians. So here's our first problem with this myth.

Linguistic, biological, and archeological data are reconciled to suggest the following: Northeast Asian peoples, Eskimo-Aleuts, and most Northwest Coast Indians are related through post-Pleistocene ...

Eskimo-Aleut speakers derive more than 50% of their DNA from First Americans, and the Chipewyan around 90%.

The measure struck the terms Negro, American Indian, Eskimo, Oriental, Indians, Aleut and "Spanish speaking individual of Spanish descent" from those laws and replaced them with Asian American ...

> Aleut-Eskimo Languages-speaking population: 3.5% Alaska is the only state that has Eskimo-Aleut languages as its most commonly spoken language after English and Spanish.

Aleut, the sole language in the Aleut branch of the Eskimo-Aleut linguistic stem, used to be widely spoken by indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, and ...

And for another, the structure of the Eskimo-Aleut languages is more conducive to producing multiple “words” for snow. Linguists call languages like the Eskimo polysynthetic.

The Aleut language, currently spoken along the Aleutian chain and the Pribilof and Commander islands, is the only language in its branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family, and traditional methods of ...

In genetic terms, the Nature paper estimates, today’s Eskimo-Aleut are 57 percent Amerind; the figure for Na-Dene is a whopping 90 percent. This is by no means the final word.

Both "Eskimo" and "Aleut" are still used about 100 times in other federal statutes, dealing with everything from art grants to fur seal management. “Negro” also still appears in a few federal ...