This small cemetery holds the graves of Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers who were stationed on Devon Island’s Dundas Harbour in the early 20th century. The uninhabited island’s extreme ...
Some in Nunavut are welcoming the discovery of one of Sir John Franklin's ships off King William Island as proof of the reliability of Inuit oral history, and a potential boost for tourism. Louie ...
The Inuit people of Greenland, originally from Siberia and other parts of Asia, migrated across the Bering Strait thousands of years ago. Adapting to the Arctic's harsh conditions, they developed ...
The appearance of European artifacts in the arctic helps archaeologists date Inuit sites. William W. Fitzhugh A team of Smithsonian scientists excavating the Hart Chalet site found a double tournois ...
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 ...
The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) says years of Inuit history and knowledge could be lost because it doesn't have the funds to continue much of its archiving work. The IBC has been digitizing ...
Two graduates of an Inuit-led post-secondary program — one from Baker Lake, Nunavut, and another from Nuuk, Greenland — say Nunavut Sivuniksavut gave them confidence and a chance to learn in a ...
For millennia, Inuit women would get tattoos with needles made of bone or sinew soaked in suet. Each tattoo signified an important accomplishment — maybe skinning a fox or sewing a seal-skin parka.
Venturing through the ice can be a dangerous task as the Earth warms. A new mobile app could help members of the Inuit indigenous community to navigate the effects of climate change. Named after the ...