In 1954, the Academy gave the award for Documentary Short Subject to the first film in Walt Disney's People & Places series. Titled The Alaskan Eskimo, the film stitched together events in the daily ...

The International Whaling Commission yesterday approved extending bowhead whaling quotas for Alaska Eskimos for subsistence hunting. The 76-nation commission voted by consensus to allow 280 bowhead ...

While the steamy rainforests of Brazil are far from Alaska’s arctic, the challenges of climate change discussed at the U.N.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The International Whaling Commission on Tuesday approved extending bowhead whaling quotas for Alaska Eskimos for subsistence hunting. The 76-nation commission voted by consensus to ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the Big Dipper Ice Area in Fairbanks to view the 62nd World Eskimo-Indian Olympics opening ceremony Wednesday evening. “What makes WEIO special is the camaraderie of the ...

Shishmaref is melting into the ocean. Over the past 30 years, the Inupiaq Eskimo village, perched on a slender barrier island 625 miles north of Anchorage, has lost 100 ft. to 300 ft. of ...

(CNN) -- The indigenous people of Alaska have stood firm against some of the most extreme weather conditions on Earth for thousands of years. But now, flooding blamed on climate change is forcing at ...

With all eyes on the COP30 climate talks in Belém, underway in Brazil this week, the organization representing Inuit internationally has issued a position paper calling for stronger recognition of ...

ALWAYS GETTING READY : UPTERRLAINARLUTA : YUPIK ESKIMO SUBSISTENCE IN SOUTHWEST ALASKA PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAMES H BARKER TEXT BY JAMES H BARKER WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF ROBIN BARKER FOREWORD BY MARY C PETE ...

There is a classic scene in the Simpsons movie when Homer and his family—arriving in Alaska to hide out from the EPA after Homer slimes Springfield by dumping a container of pig dung into the local ...

“When a lead dog of a sled team grows old, the Eskimos shoot him,” an Alaskan had warned grimly. And though he still begins his day at 6 a.m. with 30 minutes of calisthenics and an icy bath, Alaska’s ...