In 1954, the Academy gave the award for Documentary Short Subject to the first film in Walt Disney's People & Places series. Titled The Alaskan Eskimo, the film stitched together events in the daily ...

Ada Blackjack, an Alaskan Inuit, was a 23-year-old single mother with a sick child and desperate to earn a living when she was hired to join an exploratory expedition to Wrangel Island, in the Arctic ...

In the early spring of 1942, when the Army Corps of Engineers arrived to begin building the Alaska Highway, Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native ...

Phillip Blanchett didn’t really sing in front of others as a kid. He had allergies, and breathing was difficult. He remembers doing a solo at his church once and, well, “I try not to say that it was ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Inuit hunter John Goodwin for decades has hunted oogruk, the bearded seal, a marine mammal prized for its meat, oil and hide. The largest of Alaska's ice seals uses sea ...

Reprint of the 1930 ed. published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, in series: The University of Chicago publications in anthropology, ethnological series ...

A movement dubbed 'Inuit me too' is sweeping across Inuit nunangat and beyond, with women speaking out against abusive men in leadership positions under a shared hashtag. But the national ...

FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2014 file photo, men haul sections of whale skin and blubber, known as muktuk, as a bowhead whale is butchered in a field near Barrow, Alaska. The environment is changing and ...