You might have missed my point, particularly my questioning whether she actually called herself by that term or whether the ADN editors inserted that term on her behalf.  In a strictly Alaskan context, "Inuit" has long been understood to refer to indigenous folk in Canada.  There are plenty of professional activists, many of whom are not indigenous, who have an agenda to throw context out the window and focus on language instead, with the assumption that the average person only looks at words and takes them at face value.