Candice Pedersen remembers hearing about her great-grandmother’s tattoos and wanting the same traditional markings on her skin. “She had them on her forehead, her cheeks and her chin, on her wrists ...

Self-governance was a long time coming for the Inuit of northern Labrador. Now, 20 years after the Nunatsiavut Government ...

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 narwhal with its unique, spiraling tusk has inspired legends in Inuit society and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. On Aug. 3, a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ...

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 unique genetic background of the Nunavik Inuit may underlie specific adaptations to their extreme environment as well as their increased susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases, a study suggests ...

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 ...

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.