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Normee Ekoomiak, an artist from Nunavik, came to Ottawa in the late 1970s. Through his paintings, books and vibrant wall hangings, he documented Inuit life, stories and traditions.
Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them—reflecting what they value and experience daily.
The federal government has committed to recognize and address the distinct health needs of the Métis and Inuit, but financial commitments are in the beginning stages. The federal government has ...
Its population is mostly Inuit, though it's been part of the Danish ... a professor of cultural studies at McGill University who studies Greenlandic art and literature, described Greenland as ...
While many celebrated the federal government's renewal of the Inuit Child First Initiative, some still worry that a vital program for kids in Nunavut is at risk of shutting down. Earlier this ...
Perhaps because the Inuit art well known here in the south often depicts mythic figures and humans transforming into animals, we don’t associate it with the portraiture of named individuals ...
During colonial rule, Denmark enforced assimilation policies, unofficially banning the Inuit language, forced sterilisations and removing children from their families to be placed in Danish homes.
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Greenlanders are embracing pre-Christian Inuit ...
This trio of Greenlanders, and their hungry, howling sled dogs, were following a tradition — ice fishing in a glacier fjord — that members of the Inuit community have been doing for eons.
The Tucson City Council Tuesday night OK’d amending an ordinance related to banning people from occupying medians at busy traffic intersections. But, the council did not pass two other proposals ...
More than 50 people were removed by the federal government from their ancestral homes, causing harm in Inuit communities that lingers to this day. Isaac Shooyook, born in 1939 in Arctic Bay ...