Shuvinai Ashoona, "Polar bear sketching people" (2023), colored pencil and ink on paper, 50 1/4 x 97 1/4 inches (image courtesy Fort Gansevoort) Celebrated Inuk artist Shuvinai Ashoona has debuted a ...

Twenty years ago, the Inuit Studies Conference in St. John's drew protests. Today it draws praise. The difference, says Dave Lough, deputy minister of culture, recreation and tourism with the ...

The Inuit culture had a distinct justice system, where elders would show love and respect to the accused after an incident. People believed their actions had consequences outside ...

A warning: The following piece includes references to suicide. When Elisapie thinks of her hometown of Salluit, she can almost hear the breeze. "It's like you can always be purified," she says. "You ...

NORTHAMPTON — Multidisciplinary artist Ella Alkiewicz held up her original piece, “Under the Atsânik.” The canvas depicts a violet sky, snow-capped mountains, a moose standing on grass, and beneath ...

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 first cinematic look at Eskimo life since, well, the silent documentary Nanook of the North in 1922 is not only the first widely distributed movie in the Inuit language but it’s also being hailed ...

Every human society holds its own creation myths. For millennia, until science arrived with its factual but emotionally neutral explanations about what actually occurred, these myths explained life ...

The Juno Award-winning Inuit musician, based in Montreal, imbued her favorite childhood songs with new meaning on her covers project, Inuktitut. How Elisapie turned 10 classic rock hits into ‘true ...