Word: qikartissivik
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...Qikartissivik. The instrument of self-help was the cooperative, chosen because it would belong to the Eskimo and because it was the most simple and therefore the most comprehensible of marketing systems. Even so, the concepts often boggled minds whose exercises in community action had never gone much beyond the equitable dissection of a harpooned seal. Introduced to the unfathomable mysteries of a credit union, for example, the Eskimos called it qikartissivik, "The place where the money is stopped...
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