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- proper noun People who are not
Inuit , typically white people, considered as a group
Etymologies
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Thus, while Thule Culture lasted only the few centuries that this extreme warm period allowed large whales passage into most of the Canadian Arctic, many of the technologies that the Qallunaat (non-Inuit) world associates with Inuit – dog traction, the umiaq and qayaq, and large marine mammal hunting – are Thule legacies.
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The Qallunaat have come and gone from the Arctic for hundreds of years.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Deborah Tobin 2011
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The Inuit have lived here for thousands and their seemingly limitless tolerance for us and our plans to fix them might well be rooted in their knowledge that the one thing you can count on with the Qallunaat is that they will always leave.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Deborah Tobin 2011
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The Inuit call them Qallunaat, which originally meant "man with large stomach" but has come to mean "other."
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Deborah Tobin 2011
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"I called her my Qallunaat Sister - my Southern Sister," he says.
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APTN Docu-Comedy Wins Gemini Canada Award Aboriginal Peoples Television Network congratulates the producers, cast and crew of Qallunaat!
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"APTN extends its congratulations to the producers of Qallunaat!
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