Do eskimos really exist? and do they live in iglooes?

Answer 1

They're called Inuits and at times they do stay in Igloos, usually when they hunt

Answer 2

Yes they exist and they do live in igloos. I am pretty sure you can check out the discovery channel for listings on when they air shows about the eskimoes. The shows are interesting and really cool to see how they use what they have to survive.

Answer 3

The Eskimos are the most widely dispersed group in the world still leading a partly aboriginal way of life. They live in a region that spans more than 3,500 miles, including Greenland, the northern fringe of North America, and a sector of eastern Siberia.

Eskimos are racially distinct from American Indians, and are not, as previously believed, merely “Indians transformed.” In fact, the Eskimos are most closely related to the Mongolian peoples of eastern Asia. Eskimos consider themselves to be “Inuit” (The People). The Eskimo-Aleut languages are unrelated to any American Indian language groups.

The Eskimo population was approximately 50,000 at the time of the first widespread contact with Europeans. An estimated 2,000 Siberian Eskimos lived near the Bering Strait, the Alaskan Eskimos numbered about 25,000, and the Central Eskimos (who inhabited what is now northern Canada) numbered about 10,000. The Labrador Eskimos totaled about 3,000, while the Greenland Eskimos totaled about 10,000.

The popular conception of the Eskimos—whale hunters dressed in heavy fur clothing and living in dome-shaped ice lodges—is derived from the Eskimos who live farthest north, on the Arctic islands of Canada and along northwestern Greenland. In reality, these northern Arctic dwellers formed a minority among Eskimos as a whole. No single environmental adaptation existed throughout the area of Eskimo occupancy. Eskimos along the Pacific coast probably obtained much of their food by fishing for salmon, while the Central Eskimos of Canada subsisted mainly on caribou. Eskimo groups lived in various types of shelters, including semi-subterranean sod houses and tents made of caribou skins.

At no time did the Eskimos possess a national or even well-defined tribal sense. The emphasis was on the local and familial group rather than on associations of land and territory.

The overall Eskimo population has remained fairly constant over the past several centuries, although not all groups have remained stable in number. According to the 1990 census, there are 57,152 Eskimos and 23,797 Aleuts living in the United States.

Answer 4

What you are calling Eskimos came over the land bridge that existed between Siberia and Alaska some 10,000 years ago and are descendants of the oriental race, probably mongols. They share a common ancestor with the so-called "native American", or the American Indian. Some of those who came over the land bridge migrated south as the glaciers melted at the end of the ice age and became the Indians. Others remained in the extreme north and became the various groups of "Eskimos".

Answer 5

Eskimos, or Esquimaux, are terms used to refer to people who inhabit the circumpolar region (excluding Scandinavia and most of Russia, but including the easternmost portions of Siberia). There are two main groups of Eskimos: the Inuit (in northern Alaska, Canada and Greenland) and the Yupik (of western Alaska and the Russian Far East).

The Eskimos are related to the Aleuts and the Alutiiq from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska as well as the Sug'piak from the Kodiak Islands and as far as the Prince William Sound in southcentral Alaska.

Eastern Eskimo people - the Inuit - speak Inuktitut, and western Alaskan Eskimo communities - the Yup'ik - speak Yup'ik. There is something of a dialect continuum between the two, and the westernmost dialects of Inuktitut could be viewed as forms of Yup'ik. Kinship culture also differs between east and west, as eastern Inuit lived with cousins of both parents, but western Inuit lived in paternal kinship groups.


An igloo (Inuktitut iglu / ᐃᒡᓗ, "house", plural: iglooit or igluit), translated sometimes as snowhouse, is a shelter constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a dome. Although igloos are commonly associated with all Inuit, they were predominantly constructed by people of Canada's Central Arctic and Greenlands Thule area. Other Inuit people tended to use snow to insulate their houses which consisted of whalebone and hides.The use of snow is due to the fact that snow is an insulator(due to it's low density). On the outside, temperatures may be well below freezing, but on the inside, the temperature is much more moderate and can support life

Answer 6

Eskimos do exist and the do live in igloos...you must have been a very sheltered child.

Answer 7

Yes, Eskimos or Inuits do exist. And they live in igloos. :)

Answer 8

i dont know if they call them eskimos but ppl do live in igloos. In fact, igloos can get to a liveable temperature!! amazing how ice can actually keep you warm, since it's closed in, the ppl's body heat stays trapped!! that's cool! FREE HEAT for the winter!!

Answer 9

Yes, but the more politically correct term is Inuit. Some Inuit live in igloos, while others live in lodges, trailers, apartments, houses, or just about any place that anyone else would live.

Answer 10

Yes and yes. They are indians by lineage. The igloo' thing is a bit overplayed. But, houses made of ice can keep out the elements.