July 10, 2008 — Despite eating a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, Alaskan Eskimo are developing subclinical atherosclerosis at an early age, likely due in large part to heavy smoking, a new study ...

Alaskan Eskimos' significantly higher rates of fatty artery plaque than the general U.S. population may be due to unhealthy lifestyle habits, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American ...

ANCHORAGE — Eskimo subsistence hunters who depend on bowhead whales won’t be stopped by the International Whaling Commission’s decision to ban the hunts, Alaska’s only member of the House of ...

In the last century the childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man’s guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Research on one of the oldest-living mammals - the bowhead whale - has helped preserve a primary food source for Eskimos in the far reaches of Alaska, and also may provide a ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A remote Eskimo village on a tundra-covered island in western Alaska is hoping to counter its steep unemployment rate and achieve greater self-sufficiency through one of its few ...

Alaska has a high proportion of intermarriages between Jewish and Christian men and Eskimo women, Dr. Victor E. Levine, just returned from a 20,000-mile expedition to the Arctic to study the medical ...

All along the lower Yukon, Eskimos in sealskin mukluks last week mushed their snarling dog teams to a place called Alakanuk—which means, in Eskimo, “It’s a mistake.”* They came to tell their political ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission is seeking a significant increase in the number of bowhead whales that can be harvested annually by subsistence hunters from 11 villages.

Alaska rewards—no, rather—demands ingenuity. In earlier times, with limited access to metal, Inuit hunters would use frozen fish wrapped in hides as sled runners. These days, enterprising Alaskans ...