*but see this (from alt.usage.english)
http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxeskimo.html

Thanks, tsuwm. It seems the question of what to call indigenous peoples is a tricky one. I asked several Maori speakers, including two for whom it is their first language, and all seemed agreed that the closest they could come for "Maori" is "ordinary." I guess that until colonists arrived, peoples like the Inuit and the Maori didn't need words to distinguish themselves from others, since there were no others.