Which is the correct term for a human who was previously called an Eskimo?

As of 2021, fifty years has passed since the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act {ANCSA} was put into place. In that federal designation, the Alaska Natives who traditionally lived in the remote Alaska places were given settlements for the taking of their land. At the time of the passage of the act, people of the world generally referred to all Native Alaskans as Eskimos. The term Eskimo derives from a French word meaning "people who eat meat." Generally, Eskimos were also thought as those who live in the far north in snow huts called igloos.

The correct term for the far north Native Alaskan is Iñupiaq, and is sometimes spelled slightly differently. Plural of the term is Iñupiat. The Iñupiat are one of a group of indigenous peoples living along the Arctic North American coast called Inuit. The Inuit include peoples from Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. The Inuit people share parts of a general language that allows Greenland Natives to converse with Alaska Natives.

Other groups of Alaska Natives include Yupiks who may also be natives of Siberia and they speak the Siberian Yupik language dialect. Other Alaska Native groups include Aleuts, Athabaskan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and others.