In 1867, America bought Alaska for just $7.2 million, about $158 million in today’s dollars, or roughly 42 cents an acre. Critics called it “Seward’s Folly.” History proved just the opposite with it ...

Today the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom joined Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in defending ...

Safari Club leaders and Alaska Native subsistence advocates have long been at odds over rights to hunt and fish in Alaska.

I felt humbled," a guide leading the Arctic tour told Newsweek, as "they walk by as if you are just an object out on the land ...

Alaska has a high proportion of intermarriages between Jewish and Christian men and Eskimo women, Dr. Victor E. Levine, just returned from a 20,000-mile expedition to the Arctic to study the medical ...

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The 64th annual World Eskimo-Indian Olympics are officially underway in Fairbanks, and the competition is already making headlines. On opening day at the Carlson Center, Colton Paul of Kipnuk set a ...

In the last century the childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man’s guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. FROM CARD: "LOANED BUENOS AIRES, ...

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 ...