tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post823973666179027174..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Rupert Loydell writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-81967488580755205012017-08-15T15:35:04.738-07:002017-08-15T15:35:04.738-07:00The “Eskimo” are the indigenous peoples who have t...The “Eskimo” are the indigenous peoples who have traditionally inhabited the northern circumpolar region from eastern Siberia, across Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. They consist of two main groups, the Yupik of eastern Siberia and Alaska, and the Alaskan Iñupiat and the Inuit of Greenland and Canada. A third northern group, the Aleut, is closely related. Many regard “Eskimo” to be a pejorative term; it comes from the French “Esquimau,” probably a transliteration of the Innu-aimun term used by the Montagnais in Labrador and Quebec to refer to the neighboring Mi'kmaq people, perhaps “ayas̆kimew,” the word for "snowshoe-netter" or "to net snowshoes” or the Cree “askamiciw” (“he eats it raw"); it may also mean "people who speak a different language." [Innu-aimun is an Algonquian language spoken in Eastern Canada; French traders along the Atlantic adopted their word for the more western peoples and applied it generally to northern groups. Lihnuistically the term is related to the name of the “husky”dog.] An “Eskimo kiss” is the act of pressing the tip of one's nose against another's and is loosely based on a traditional Canadian Inuit greeting called a kunik (“kiss”), a non-erotic form of affection between family members and loved ones that involves pressing the nose and upper lip against the other’s cheeks or forehead and breathing in, causing the loved one's skin or hair to be suctioned against the nose and upper lip. The practice does not involve touching noses end to end or rubbing them back and forth against each other. The Kooks, a British rock band, featured “Eskimo Kiss,” a song written by Luke Pritchard and Tony Hoffer, on their 2009 album "Junk of the Heart":<br /><br />We had so much fun<br />She gave me an Eskimo kiss<br />We put our records on<br />And set sail towards the sun,<br />Oh it's so much fun<br /><br />She's like the rose without a thorn,<br />She's like the sunflower that never looks back at the sun<br />She sees me running<br />She's like a diamond in the rough<br />She's like the first girl on this earth that you wanted to touch,<br />She sees me running<br /><br />We went back to her place<br />Her father says I have the wrong face<br />He put another one on<br />We set sail, as the night gets long,<br />Oh, it's so much fun!<br /><br />She's like the rose without a thorn,<br />She's like the sunflower that never looks back at the sun<br />She sees me running<br />She's like the diamond in the rough<br />She's like the first girl on this earth that you wanted to touch,<br />She sees me running, sees me running<br /><br />Oh, lonely bones<br />Well, I'm coming through the sun<br />And our lives have just begun<br />Oh, lonely bones<br />Yeah, I'm coming through the sun<br />And our lives have just begun<br /><br />And it goes<br />La la la la la<br />La la la la la<br />La la la la la<br /><br />And it goes<br />La la la la la<br />Did you ever wonder why<br />This old word will make you cry?<br />And it goes<br />La la la la la<br />Did you ever wonder why<br />This old word will make you cry?DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com