Clearly, cultural sensitivity hasn't always been a thing. "Canadian Eskimos Are Adopting the White Man's Ways" read the headline of the story that accompanied this picture of Noah Etokana, which was published in The New York Times on August 8, 1968. Etokana, 18, of Arctic Sound, is displaying a snowknife used to cut blocks for igloos.

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