Qapik Attagutsiak lights an oil lamp in her home in Arctic Bay, 2014 - Clare Kines Qapik Attagutsiak, who has died aged 103, was the last known survivor of the Inuit who contributed to the Second ...

Inuit filmmaker and language teacher Myna Ishulutak as a little girl. Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent six months with the family in the 1970s documenting the child's upbringing. Back up in Iqaluit, ...

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 ...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Sitting on the pelt of a polar bear hunted by her family, Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq says she’s proud to be part of a movement of Greenlanders reclaiming their Inuit traditions and ...

Near the Arctic Circle, Shuvinai Ashoona, a star of the Venice Biennale, and her community of Inuit artists refuse to let isolation stand in their way. Kinngait, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. Its ...

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 ...

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