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Eskimo Inuit Throat Music

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Uploaded by on Jun 4, 2006

An example of Eskimo Inuit throat music by four Inuit singers from the Canadian Arctic. Motivational speaker Clint Cora http://www.clintcora.com is a huge fan of Inuit culture.

Free Spirit Gallery is at http://www.freespiritgallery.ca

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  • We realize that the proper term is Inuit rather than Eskimo. However, this video is aimed at worldwide audiences and most people do not know the term Inuit. The Inuit's counterparts in Alaska still use the term eskimo. We use eskimo just so many people around the world will find this video. Then our website disclaimer educates them on the Inuit term. If we use just Inuit, this culture will have a very limited audience. This is our final position on this issue. Clint, Free Spirit Gallery

  • you have to change your title to Inuit Throat Singers, not Eskimo

  • In most of Arctic Canada, you are right that the proper term is Inuit but in other northern regions including Alaska, the term Eskimo is still used, even by many of the northern people there. Most of the non-Arctic world still haven't heard of the term Inuit.

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  • I thought that Inuit is a subgroup of Eskimo. (so it's like calling someone from Belgium, European instead of Belgian).

  • this is the coolest music i hav ever herd!

  • sorry fakeadam, it is not one who sing and the other who immitate !!

    they all sing a different melody or at least not on the same time, depending of the song and those melodyies are joining to guether to give you the impression you had. Anyway, I would like to know where and when this video was taken. Those ladies are from Puvirnituk, northern Québec.

  • Super neat. I would like a longer recording though.

  • It's a game.

    One person makes a sound, the other has to immitate it, usually getting faster and faster. First to make a mistake or crack up laughing, loses.

    Staves off boredom up in the frozen north, and would be kinda fun too.

    -Dave

  • I don't think social structure has anything to do with the way they chant...

  • umm... wow tribe chanting

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