It’s an old adage, that the Inuit language has over fifty words for snow. And yet, this popular misconception is not too far from the truth. That’s because, as researchers from the University of ...

Stephane Cloutier Culture and Heritage Nunavut Mar. 15, 2016. Caption: Even as the demand for government translations continues to increase, Stephane Cloutier, the acting ...

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

Call him Norman of the North — or the Wandering Jew. That’s the best way to explain how cinematographer Norman Cohn of Washington Heights, N.Y., moved to the Canadian Arctic and shot the first ...

MISSIONARIES in northern Canada saw themselves as spreading the “three Cs” among the region’s Inuit peoples: Christianity, commerce and civilisation. But in translating the Bible and other religious ...

Kelly Fraser, a Canadian pop artist who gained attention for an Inuit-language cover of Rihanna’s “Diamonds,” part of her advocacy efforts for her indigenous culture, died Dec. 24 in Winnipeg. She was ...

Facebook has announced that it is setting up services to allow Canadian Inuit people to use the social media platform in their own language. The announcement - on the Nunavut Day public holiday - ...