En Alaska, les femmes inuit sont de loin plus nombreuses dans l'enseignement postsecondaire que les hommes. Chez les Inupiat de l'Alaska, seulement 28% des étudiants inscrits dans les programmes du ...

This exhibit explores the Inuit worldview, based on mutual respect between humans and animals. Through contemporary Inuit carvings and prints, traditional tools and clothing, and filmed interviews ...

Some Inuit men were on a fall caribou hunt south of Igloolik, on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, when a young polar bear ripped open the door of their Arctic Oven-style tent as they slept. “One ...

Peter Collings. McGill-Queen's University Press (CUP Services, U.S. dist.; Georgetown Terminal Warehouses, Canadian dist.), $32.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-7735-4313-3 Collings, a professor of ...

Prostate cancer’s prevalence and its increase with age tend to be consistent from country to country. A new study finds one major exception to this cancer’s high prevalence in older men: Arctic Inuit ...

I commend the excellent reporting and well-informed perspectives put forth in most of The Economist's Special Report on the Arctic published on June 16th. The majority of the work constitutes the type ...

It’s an exhibition that tells the story of a family: a mother, her daughter and her daughter’s daughter. It also tells the story of settlement, of a fur-trading outpost in the frigid Canadian Arctic ...

OBJECTIVE: To analyse overweight, obesity and central fat patterning among the Inuit of Greenland and Inuit migrants in Denmark and their relation to Westernization. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, ...

The 1950s and ‘60s were a time of major change for the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. “People were more and more moving from their nomadic camp lifestyles into communities,” explains Maija Lutz, the ...

The Inuit people of Cape Dorset — Kinngait, in the Inuktitut language — were historically nomadic, traveling from camp to camp in family tribes according to the hunting and fishing seasons. Though ...

In the beginning, he went to the ends of the Earth for the sheer challenge of exploration. In subsequent Arctic expeditions, he began to wed exploration with education. Now, Ely dogsledder Will Steger ...