Tliis paper deals wilh ihe dislribution of word length in short native mylliological and hisuirieal Eskimo narrative texls. To my knowledge. no Eskimo-Aletil data have been ihe object of quantitative linguistie Investigation so t'ar. Dtte Io tlie strong linguistie and slylixlic honiogcncily of Ihe examined texts u was assumed tlial tltese texts tun be subsumed under a single law of Word lengih ...

-Ethnobotanical information on the Native use of 47 spedes of indigenous plants on Nunivak Island, Alaska is presented. Changes in subsistence use among the Cup'it Eskimo of Nunivak, throughout the twentieth centuey, have resulted in the loss of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. While previous studies have presented limited information on the importance of particular plant species to the lo...

A survey of 766 Eskimo children in Baffin Zone of the Northwest Territories showed high levels of dental caries comparable to those found elsewhere in the Arctic. Lowest caries rates were in Pond Inlet, one of the most isolated settlements. The fluoridation of water supplies in Frobisher Bay appeared to be effecting a reduction in dental caries in the permanent teeth but not in the deciduous te...

Dalam proses pengembangan perekonomian Indonesia, kenaikan energi saing UsahaMikro Kecil Menengah (UMKM) patut dibenahi karena berkaitan dengan pertumbuhanekonomi Indonesia. Serta hadirnya upaya peningkatan daya untuk UMKM, sektorpertumbuhan ekonomi Indonesia bisa semakin besar dan faktor-faktor penting lainnya gunameningkatkan yaitu adanya implementasi teknologi informasi. Denganhadirnya strat...

This paper focuses on the English-Eskimo and Eskimo-English Vocabularies, published by Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. 1890, which appeared with general aim to motivate a wider range of people learn about Arctic Eskimos make communication them easier, but it was initially designed as handbook for Alaskan school teachers. Although publication can be approached from different persp...

During the 1970s, 2 Danish investigators, Bang and Dyerberg, on being informed that the Greenland Eskimos had a low prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) set out to study the diet of this population. Bang and Dyerberg described the "Eskimo diet" as consisting of large amounts of seal and whale blubber (ie, fats of animal origin) and suggested that this diet was a key factor in the alleged...