Tuesday's letters: Origin of word Eskimo is innocuous

Mayor Don Iveson should do a little research before he tries garnering media attention by jumping on the politically correct bandwagon concerning the use of the word Eskimo.
Modern linguists believe the word Eskimo actually came from the French word esquimaux, meaning one who nets snowshoes. Netting snowshoes is the highly precise way that Arctic peoples built winter footwear by tightly weaving, or netting, sinew from caribou or other animals across a wooden frame. Pray tell; how is that offensi