Greenland’s culture is being reshaped by modern technology and climate change. As Greenland melts–faster than anyone predicted; more than half of the ice sheet disappeared last summer–it’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Inuit women whose work is chronicled in “Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait” are known for illustrating life’s intimacies within their Arctic communities and families, as well as life’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
The thirty-six-year-old Greenlandic photographer Inuuteq Storch didn’t know much about Inuit culture growing up. In school, for instance, he was taught about ancient Greek deities, but there was no ...
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