Panook

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Panook is the mascot of the Edmonton Eskimos Football Club and of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is depicted as a stylized polar bear with exaggerated features.

[edit] Origin of name

In Inuit mythology, Panook was the master of bears, meaning he decided if hunters had followed all applicable taboos and if they deserved success in hunting bears.

[edit] Trivia

The 1922 Robert Flaherty-directed movie Panook of the North named its main character after him.

Panook is also Inuktitut for "polar bear".

Panook is also used by some American Indians as a term to identify the whiteman often considered derogatory.

Frank Zappa wrote a song called "Panook Rubs It", a part of Don't Eat the Yellow Snow, first appearing on his 1974 album Apostrophe.

Panook was also the name of Corey Haim's dog in the 80's classic "The Lost Boys". The breed of dog was a Husky.

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