Editing Infanticide (section)

====Inuit====
There is no agreement about the actual estimates of the frequency of newborn female infanticide in the [[Inuit]] population. [[Carmel Schrire]] mentions diverse studies ranging from 15% to 80%.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Schrire| first = Carmel| author-link = Carmel Schrire|author2=William Lee Steiger| title = A matter of life and death: an investigation into the practice of female infanticide in the Arctic| journal = Man| volume = 9| issue = 2| pages = 161–84| year = 1974| doi=10.2307/2800072| jstor = 2800072}}</ref>

Polar Inuit ([[Inughuit]]) killed the child by throwing him or her into the sea.<ref>{{Cite book| last=Fridtjof| first=Nansen| title=Eskimo Life| publisher=Longmans, Green & Co.| year=1894| location=London| page=152}}</ref> There is even a legend in [[Inuit mythology]], "The Unwanted Child", where a mother throws her child into the [[fjord]].

The [[Yukon]] and the Mahlemuit tribes of [[Alaska]] exposed the female newborns by first stuffing their mouths with grass before leaving them to die.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Garber| first = Clark| title =Eskimo Infanticide| journal = [[Scientific Monthly]]| volume = 64| issue = 2| year = 1947| pages = 98–102| pmid = 20285669| bibcode = 1947SciMo..64...98G}}</ref> In [[Arctic]] Canada the Inuit exposed their babies on the ice and left them to die.<ref name="InfHisSu"/>{{rp|354}}

Female Inuit infanticide disappeared in the 1930s and 1940s after contact with the Western cultures from the South.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Balikci| first = Asen| contribution = Netslik| editor-last = Damas| editor-first = David| title = Handbook of North American Indians (Arctic)| page = 427| publisher = [[Smithsonian Institution]]| place = Washington DC| year = 1984| title-link = Handbook of North American Indians}}</ref>

However, it must be acknowledged these infanticide claims came from non-Inuit observers, whose writings were later used to justify the forced westernization of indigenous peoples. In 2009, Travis Hedwig argued that infanticide runs counter to cultural norms at the time and that researchers were misinterpreting the actions of an unfamiliar culture and people.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hedwig |first=Travis |date=2009 |title=The Boundaries of Inclusion for Iñupiat Experiencing Disability in Alaska |url=https://www.alaskaanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AJA-v71-optimized.pdf |journal=Alaska Journal of Anthropology |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=126–134 |access-date=28 June 2023 |archive-date=28 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628024441/https://www.alaskaanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AJA-v71-optimized.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>