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 ...
Drummer Brooklyn Flynn, also a member of NunatuKavut, said while playing, the group picks someone to be the leader who decides what the pattern will be, and everyone has a turn to ...
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 ...
Alaska ensemble Pamyua will showcase Inuit culture through modern performance for one night only in Whitefish on Oct. 27. Described as “Inuit soul music,” Pamyua was formed by brothers Phillip and ...
Brian Adams has spent his photography career reconnecting with his own Inuit culture. Raised in Girdwood, Alaska, Adams is half Iñupiat but grew up largely disconnected from his indigenous culture.
“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 ...
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 ...
Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...
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 ...
We've been doing "Eskimo kisses" all wrong according to one Inuit mother-daughter pair. Inuit have resided in the arctic for 5,000 years. Due to colonialism, the Inuit population is only roughly ...