Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them—reflecting what they value and experience daily. So perhaps it's no surprise different languages highlight different areas of ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, ...

Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Join moderator Tiffany Ayalik (Inuinnaq) and speakers James Dommek Jr. (Iñupiaq), Byron Nicholai (Yup’ik) and Julia Ogina (Kangiqyuarmiutaq ...

When Leah Ayaruaq McKay moved from Qikitarjuaq to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, at 13, she carried more than her belongings. She carried Inuktitut, the Inuit language spoken in the central and eastern ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

When the federal government set up boarding schools in the 19th century to assimilate Native American children into American culture, one of the objectives was to get them to turn away from the use of ...

The American Indian Law Program (AILP) at the University of Colorado Law School hosted a hybrid panel discussion entitled “Self-Determining Greenland: Understanding Inuit Rights and International Law, ...