In the late 1940s and early 1950s when Inuit art was introduced to southern Canada's art scene, the federal government established a trademark to protect artists' work from copycats. That trademark, ...

Arviat, Nunavut, a community of about 3,200 people on the western coast of Hudson Bay, was selected by Inuit Tapiriit ...

The Inuit inhabit northern locations, ranging from Alaska to Greenland. The lives of these communities vary, but all have a central focus around hunting. Inuit depend on it for survival because the ...

There are places so strongly tied to mythical imagery that you can’t help but dream about them. And when their mountains are covered in ice and snows, of course, you want to go skiing there. Greenland ...

This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — On a bitter late September day ...

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One hundred years ago this summer, Robert J. Flaherty presented “Nanook of the North” to the public in New York. In the documentary genre, this extraordinary portrayal of an Inuit (at that time called ...

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 ...

The RCMP Security Service spied on Inuit leaders like John Amagoalik as they developed their Nunavut proposal in the 1970s, ...

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 ...

Former Inuit leaders say the RCMP’s statement of ‘regret’ for spying on Indigenous leaders in the 1960s and '70s isn’t enough ...