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Hunting and fishing is the basis for the Inuit culture and economy. It defines who we are as a people. Without guaranteed rights to access and manage our food resources, our culture and the Arctic ...

Inupiaq rapper AKU-MATU inhabits many forms when onstage. In some songs she raps as a polar bear; in others, a caribou or a whale. In one rap, she embodies “an ancestor from the future.” Offstage, she ...

The term “eskimo” is divisive across much of the arctic, but it’s still being used in western Alaska. Some identify with it, while others want to see change. President Obama recently removed the words ...

Edited film shot by William Van Valin as leader of the John Wanamaker Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The film, that later toured in a film-lecture series ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Inuit hunter John Goodwin for decades has hunted oogruk, the bearded seal, a marine mammal prized for its meat, oil and hide. The largest of Alaska’s ice seals uses sea ...