For thousands of years, Inuit people have marked themselves with tattoos. While designs and meanings vary, tattoos remain a vital part of the culture. But a century ago, the tradition was nearly lost ...

Perhaps in this difficult era we have found ourselves in, looking back to ancient mythology can offer some guidance. The virus that has upended the lives of every human on our planet reminds us that ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study is changing what we know about the lives of Inuit 4,500 years ago. It suggests that they were much better at sea ...

‘It is difficult, if not impossible, for any person living in Canada today, Inuit or non-Inuit, to imagine what it was like to live as Inuit traditionally did,” Noel McDermott, one of the editors of ...

This May the National Museum of the American Indian was privileged to host four remarkable Inuit women from Nunavut who were in Washington as guests of the Embassy of Canada to attend the opening of ...

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most unforgiving landscapes. This small cemetery holds the graves of Royal ...

ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) — 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 ...

Aviaja Rakel Sanimuinaq is an Inuk Greenlander, a shaman, and a spiritual healer. She wears traditional Inuit facial tattoos and helps others reconnect with their ancestors to heal generational trauma ...