Are Inuit Indians related to the Hopi, Navajo, Iroquois or Mohawk?
Inuit is the preferred name for those people often called “Eskimo.” Inuit means “people.” The Inuit are located in Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland and Siberia. They are thus closely related to each other both culturally and often linguistically. Books sometimes discuss the people as participating in a “circum-polar” tradition, because they traditional live along the Arctic circle. The relationships (genetic and linguistic) among Native American people is greatly debated. “Iroquois,” by the way, encompasses the people who formed the great Confederacy of the East and includes the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora.
