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Eskimo Land
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The far north counterpart to Injun Country, and part of the Hollywood Atlas. Expect any Inuit villages to be a mishmash of outdated stereotypes. Polar Bears and Penguins are the only wildlife features in the otherwise blank white landscape. The plant life is non-existent, the snow never ever thaws. The only people around are Inuit who never, ever take off their parkas, and they spend each and every day dog sledding, ice fishing, and seal hunting. They eat nothing but blubber, their ice igloos are their permanent residences (rather than their actual use as temporary shelter), and they know nothing about the modern world. And, of course, they send their old people off to die on ice floes, either from exposure, starvation, or simply as polar bear food. A note on terminology: Many people nowadays consider the word "Eskimo" derogatory (it doesn't help that the term is sometimes thought to derive from expressions meaning "eaters of raw meat" in other Indigenous languages, though less pejorative etymologies have also been proposed). The most common alternative, especially in Canada and Greenland, is "Inuit" (meaning "the people" in the Inuit language Inuktitut). Note that "Inuit" is plural when used as a noun, while the singular form "Inuk" refers to an individual of Inuit origin. Complicating matters further, the Inuit aren't the only ethnicity that's historically been lumped as "Eskimo", so the proper terminology varies depending on where you go: |
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The Far Side made a lot of gags based on this trope, such as "Eskimo Rescue Units" (in which Inuit use flamethrowers to rescue people trapped under collapsed igloos) and "Hibernating Eskimos" (which has an Inuit tribe hibernating underground in a desert). | |
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Holoska from Sonic Unleashed, the northern polar ice cap of Sonic's world and its own country. | |
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Riff and Torg from Sluggy Freelance seem to believe the entire state of Alaska is like this when Riff moves there. | |
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In the Looney Tunes short Polar Pals, Porky Pig lives in an igloo, uses polar bears as blankets, and defends the local wildlife from a fur trapper named I. Killem. | |
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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is different considering it's a feature film made by an Inuit director and cast. | |
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Nanook's Great Hunt, a fairly obscure animated series about an Inuit boy on a quest to save his father, who has been captured by a malevolent Polar Bear god. Set in the late 19th century or thereabouts, many episodes revolved around the culture clash between the traditional Inuit ways & the encroaching modern world. | |
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The Tuskarr from World of Warcraft are a neutral race of walrus people introduced in Wrath Of The Lich King. They're based on a mishmash of northern cultures and, oddly enough, a little bit of Polynesian influence for good measure. | |
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Spyro: A Hero's Tail has Icy Wilderness/Frostbite Village, which is inhabited by hostile native Eskimoles. | |
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Never Alone is a puzzle-platformer about a Iñupiaq girl who, with the help of an arctic fox companion, goes on a quest to stop a seemingly-endless blizzard threatening her village. The developers made efforts to avoid as many Eskimo Land stereotypes as possible; Never Alone was developed with plenty of consultation from actual members of the I&ntidle;upiat tribe, and even features "Cultural Insight" videos unlocked by in-game collectibles. | |
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"Quinn the Eskimo" ("The Mighty Quinn") from Self Portrait by Bob Dylan, which was Covered Up in the UK by Manfred Mann. Zig-zags... or maybe subverts, or... Well, it does something unconventional with the trope by making the titular Inuk some kind of messianic figure. | |
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This trope is utterly subverted in Lands of Ice and Mice. The Thule (an Inuit culture that developed agriculture) are generally quite aggressive. And while they do build igloos, they are used almost exclusively for food storage. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Sequel Series The Legend of Korra, with their shared Far East fantasy setting, have the Southern and Northern Water Tribes, Fantasy Counterpart Cultures that draw primarily from Inuit culture with a smattering of other influences. Its presentation combines stereotypical elements (Polar Bears and Penguins via Mix-and-Match Critters yields Polar-Bear Dogs and four-winged Penguin Otters, as well as Tiger-Seals, Koala Seals and Sea Ravens) with more accurate and original details in costume and setting design (they live in tents, have outfits other than parkas, unique and varied beaded hairstyles, and so on). Additionally, they're much more urbanized and technologically developed than most examples of this trope, particularly by the time Korra takes place, where they not only have at least two major cities, but also snowmobiles, jet skis, and even battleships. The Southern Water Tribe even has one of the world's biggest companies (one that invented film, at that). |
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Forgotten Realms: The Sea of Moving Ice, which is at the northern extreme of the continent, is basically this, with tribes of hunter-gatherers who roam the ice hunting seals and polar bears. Oh, and white dragons, frost giants, and other deadly beings, too. | |
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Sannikov Land is set on an island in the far north populated by a tribe called the Onkilon. | |
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Zigzagged with the album Eskimo by The Residents, which is a Concept Album about Inuit culture set on the North Pole. The whole album focuses on a group of Inuits. Although it's all made up and not well researched at all... | |
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Ice Climber is definitely set here, with yetis added in. There are no penguins though, keeping the theme strictly "North Pole." | |
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Big Miracle is better than most considering it's based on a true story and depicts the Inupiat community realistically having to deal with the political implications of the whale rescue. | |
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Possibly lampshaded in Friendly Hostility when Fox visits Fatima in Alaska. | |
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In The Last Airbender, the Southern Water Tribe is portrayed as an Inuit village quite accurately, the shops, clothing, and even utensils look authentic, and even the extras (which have no dialogue) are really Inuit, but the protagonists are white. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Zunari is a shopkeeper who is from "a very cold place" who looks the stereotype to a T. He wears his parka 24/7 even on the rather temperate island he lives on in the present. In its direct sequel Phantom Hourglass we find his apparent hometown and the people he was raised among. The Anouki (Humanoid penguins with reindeer antlers) are ice igloo-dwelling denizens of Slippy-Slidey Ice World and all wear nothing but blue parkas (okay, there are two with yellow ones as part of a sidequest.) | |
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The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: The Ice Clans of the Far North are based on real-life Inuits. The Chukchi people's traditional ways also gave the author ideas for the Narwal Clan's lifestyle. | |
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The Chukchi ensemble Ergyron performs both traditional Chukchi dances and modern songs about Chukchi life, and hopes to subvert some of the stereotypes people may have about the natives of the Far North. | |
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The first major documentary film, Nanook of the North, helped perpetuate a lot of these stereotypes, as exact realism was not a major concern for documentarians in those days. For instance, Flaherty asked the local Inuit to hunt down a walrus with harpoons instead of the guns that they ordinarily used. | |
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An episode of Hey Arnold! ends with Helga's sister Olga going to Alaska "to teach desperate and underprivileged Inuit children". While they did at least update the terminology, the school building is a lone igloo without electricity in the middle of a frozen wasteland. | |
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Yvon of the Yukon: The show is set in the small town of Upyermukluk, set in the far north. It has a large Inuit population, but unlike many examples of this trope, the town is not made of igloos, but is a permanent settlement with proper wooden buildings. The locals, while quirky, are also not particularly stereotypical of Natives, and there are many non-native characters. | |
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