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Spurred by a documentary and the Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project, once-banned Inuit tattoos in Canada are making a comeback. Find out about their fascinating history – and future.
Because Inuit people were nomadic, Adams wanted to start the project by crossing a broad region of land and sea. "I liked the idea of traveling in the footsteps of our ancestors," Adams said.
For the past three years, Holwell, 47, has helped run a sea ice monitoring program for the Inuit. Unlike other climate data efforts, this one is completely focused on the needs of the local community.
Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to adapt. When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh ...
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 ...
In recent decades, the Inuit have faced many external obstacles to practicing their millennia-old traditions. In the 1950s and 1960s, the government forced the Inuit into permanent villages.
In the Inuit language, tusarnitut means “sounds that please the ear.” It’s a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts focused on the power of songs and music in ...
Spurred by a documentary and the Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project, once-banned Inuit tattoos in Canada are making a comeback. Find out about their fascinating history – and future.