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 ...

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 ...

Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to ...

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 ...

Health care inequities behind shorter life spans for Inuit from Nunavik, Quebec, with lung cancer by Canadian Medical Association Journal Editors' notes Add as preferred source Credit: Pixabay/CC0 ...

ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) — Jørgen Kristensen, a resident of northern Greenland, reflects on his childhood spent with sled dogs amid a rapidly changing environment. As the climate warms, traditional ...

Near the Arctic Circle, Shuvinai Ashoona, a star of the Venice Biennale, and her community of Inuit artists refuse to let isolation stand in their way. Kinngait, Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic. Its ...