The term “Eskimo” (Esquimaux) refers to the diverse Indigenous peoples of Arctic and sub-Arctic North America, Greenland and Northeastern Siberia. The term has never been commonly used by community members to describe themselves in their own language, as they would use their own indigenous terms. There is no general acceptance on the linguistic origins of the term. Some regard the term as a French or English version of an indigenous term. Today there is better acceptance of the term in Alaska than in Canada or Greenland, where other terms are preferred and Eskimo is seen to have a pejorative meaning. The term has now largely passed out of official use. Deciding on another broad term that describes all groups who live in the circumpolar north is not straightforward, although Eskimo-Aleut is used to describe the linguistic group.