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In Inuit mythology, Nanook was the master of bears, meaning he decided if hunters had followed all applicable taboos and if they deserved success in hunting bears.
Nanook is the mascot of the Edmonton Eskimos Football Club and of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is depicted as a stylized polar bear.
The 1922 Robert Flaherty-directed movie Nanook of the North named its main character after him.
Nanook is also Inuktitut for "polar bear".
Nanook is also used by some American Indians as a term to identify the whiteman often considered derogatory.
Frank Zappa wrote a song called "Nanook Rubs It", a part of Don't Eat the Yellow Snow, first appearing on his 1974 album Apostrophe. Nanook the Husker "Nooker"
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