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My wife grew up in Canada and is Inuit, Inupiaq to be exact. She didn't know it was a slur. Many of her family self describe with the word.
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Yeah that's fine if your wife wants to call herself eskimo, she has every right. I think the problem is when others take over the name because they think they are dealing with a dead society or at least one that doesn't matter, there becomes a problem. Here's a quote from the first link.
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• From Risling, the former Stanford student: "Indian people are living, breathing people. And having someone reduced to a mascot or a symbol so a whole other group of people can 'become Indian' and negate all those living, breathing Indian people, that's unacceptable. Anytime we say non-Indians can become Indian by becoming a mascot, we say real Indians don't exist."
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So a Scottish football team calls themselves the Celtic, no problem because they are Celtic. If some native team wants to call themselves the Wagon Burners (they have a sense of humour) that's their right. For anglo saxon teams to take native names or phony native culture as in the case of Chief Wahoo or the old Atlanta Braves mascot, isn't their right, in fact it's often racist.