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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A warning: The following piece includes references to suicide. When Elisapie thinks of her hometown of Salluit, she can almost hear the breeze. "It's like you can always be purified," she says. "You ...

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 ...

The stunning National Geographic documentary, “The Last Ice” may sound like it is about climate change — and the film does address that hot-button issue — but its greater focus is the cultural changes ...

Annie Pootoogook was an Inuit artist known for her depictions of contemporary Inuit life using pen and coloured pencils. Born in 1969 in Cape Dorset, Canada, she lived in Kinngait, Canada. Her work ...

Oftentimes in the Arctic, Inuit family histories stretch across national borders. The Inglangasak family once lived in Alaska, but changes in game patterns eventually brought them to Canada. They now ...