‘Eskimo’ and ‘Aleut’ scrubbed from 2 U.S. laws yet live on

President Obama has signed a bill that removes the words “Oriental,” “Eskimo” and “Aleut” from two federal programs. The Alaskan terms, though, live on in other U.S. laws.
Contrary to some accounts in social media, the new law doesn’t make the terms illegal and no one is barred from using them.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., says she wanted to erase from U.S. code the last two instances of the term “Oriental&rdqu