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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

More than a decade passed between Nive Nielsen’s first acting role and her second. In 2005, she made her onscreen debut as an unnamed Inuit woman in Terrence Malick’s colonial drama The New World. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...