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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After their arrival on a snowy tarmac in Montreal Saturday, a number of Inuit objects among the 62 Indigenous cultural items repatriated from the Vatican were unveiled at the Canadian Museum of ...

A team of genetics researchers has sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, or qimmeq (plural qimmit), both living and dead. Their results shed light on both the development of this breed 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 ...

As Norman Cohn will tell you now, he believes that the Jews and the Eskimos are the longest tribal survivors in history. But it’s a shared trait that the New York Jewish pioneer video artist had not ...

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.