Possible Clues:

• Word preferred over "Eskimo"
• North Americans elected that object about university
• Lifetime's occupation
• Native of Alaska
• Language akin to Kalaallisut
• Foreign language in clubs, say, son ignored
• Snowmen and snowwomen?
• Native home, quaint, with odd parts obscured
• Greenland Eskimo
• One night in Montreal is enough for people from northern Canada