The first two are Siberian Yup'ik villages on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, and the latter is a mainland Inupiat village about 570 miles to the northeast, on the Chukchi Sea ...

It's a place that snowy owls, arctic foxes and 4,600 people — more than half of whom are native Inupiat Eskimo — call home. The discovery of oil in nearby Prudhoe Bay in the late 1960s brought ...

Used with permission Alaska's indigenous people, who are jointly called Alaska Natives, can be divided into five major groupings: Aleuts, Northern Eskimos (Inupiat), Southern Eskimos (Yuit ...

Yugu Alfred Ningeok is the son of a whaling captain and a member of an Inupiat whaling crew. An umiak, or skin boat, carries a small team in pursuit of a whale. Hear more about camping on sea ice ...

In 1958 the US Atomic Energy Commission planned to detonate thermonuclear bombs near Point Hope North Americas oldest continually inhabited settlement History of the Iñupiat Project Chariot tells ...