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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the stunning yet grim “The Last Ice,” melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life
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 ...
And move my inward parts with joy. o Song of the Igloolik female shaman, Uvanuk, recorded by Knud Rasmussen in the 1920s Early missionaries in the Arctic had to tailor their message to suit the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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