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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve been doing “Eskimo kisses” all wrong according to one Inuit mother-daughter pair. Inuit have resided in the arctic for 5,000 ...

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 ...

NUUK, Greenland — 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 ...

Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen's closest friends were his stepfather's sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was different. When he was bullied ...

“For generations, Jupi and his ancestors were raised to be storytellers, specifically for Kipik,” Aviaq Johnston writes in her remarkable new novel “Leave Our Bones Where They Lay.” The stories must ...

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 ...

In a normal year, November is the month when frozen water reconnects friends and families on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. In the Inuktitut language, the word for November—Tusaqtuut—means ...

ILULISSAT, Greenland — Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen’s closest friends were his stepfather’s sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was ...