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There are Inuit games (here and here), games about Eskimoes, and even a company called Little Eskimo Games, but this may be the first game which promotes the Inuit language.
Janet McGrath of the Ikajuqtigiit Society in Cambridge Bay developed an Inuktitut version of Scrabble. She’s not yet producing it professionally, but copies have been sent around to Inuit centers across Canada.
(source, photo of, I think, the correct Janet McGrath (source))
Update: As a commenter notes, the word “Eskimo” is considered by some to be pejorative; it is not intended to be so in this post.
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The indigenous people of Canada prefer the term Inuit and consider Eskimo to be perjorative.
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