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 ...

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 ...

TikToker Shina Novalinga (@shinanova) got a traditional tattoo with her mother in honor of their Inuit heritage. Novalinga is an Inuk throat singer, activist and influencer who’s amassed a large ...

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 ...

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. Their territory spans the modern-day Chukotka Peninsula 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 ...

VENICE — How do we attempt understanding across difference? What does self-representation mean, and how might it aid in this task? While these questions come up in all kinds of contexts, when in ...

Imagine yourself surrounded by ice-block walls, sheltered from bitter winter cold and warmed by the small flame of a stone lamp burning seal oil. Inuit families lived this way for centuries in the ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection contains twenty-one 9.5 in. x 6 in. photomechanical prints of drawings created by Nungusuituq (1890-1950), who the publisher ...

Separated by thousands of miles and vastly different climates, there is common ground between the people of south Louisiana and those native to northern Canada. "The Inuit people were very much like ...