Shuvinai Ashoona, "Polar bear sketching people" (2023), colored pencil and ink on paper, 50 1/4 x 97 1/4 inches (image courtesy Fort Gansevoort) Celebrated Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona has debuted a ...

This May the National Museum of the American Indian was privileged to host four remarkable Inuit women from Nunavut who were in Washington as guests of the Embassy of Canada to attend the opening of ...

The Inuit culture had a distinct justice system, where elders would show love and respect to the accused after an incident. People believed their actions had consequences outside ...

Consider it, "Tradition in Transition: Inuit Art & Culture," your introduction to the Inuit. Once known as Eskimos, the Inuit people preserve their traditions through their art and stories told by one ...

A warning: The following piece includes references to suicide. When Elisapie thinks of her hometown of Salluit, she can almost hear the breeze. "It's like you can always be purified," she says. "You ...

“For generations, Jupi and his ancestors were raised to be storytellers, specifically for Kipik,” Aviaq Johnston writes in her remarkable new novel “Leave Our Bones Where They Lay.” The stories must ...

Twenty years ago, the Inuit Studies Conference in St. John's drew protests. Today it draws praise. The difference, says Dave Lough, deputy minister of culture, recreation and tourism with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve been doing “Eskimo kisses” all wrong according to one Inuit mother-daughter pair. Inuit have resided in the arctic for 5,000 ...

In a normal year, November is the month when frozen water reconnects friends and families on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. In the Inuktitut language, the word for November—Tusaqtuut—means ...

The stunning National Geographic documentary, “The Last Ice” may sound like it is about climate change — and the film does address that hot-button issue — but its greater focus is the cultural changes ...