-- When Edna MacLean, a renowned Inuk linguist, took the podium at a language conference in Iqaluit this year, over 200 Inuit from Canada, the United States and Greenland were listening in the ...
Inuit women are meeting in Atlantic Canada this week to develop standard words for sexual health in the Inuit langauge in Canada. Right now, there are no standard words for diseases such as HIV-Aids, ...
Call him Norman of the North — or the Wandering Jew. That’s the best way to explain how cinematographer Norman Cohn of Washington Heights, N.Y., moved to the Canadian Arctic and shot the first ...
Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...
Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...
Kelly Fraser, a Canadian pop artist who gained attention for an Inuit-language cover of Rihanna’s “Diamonds,” part of her advocacy efforts for her indigenous culture, died Dec. 24 in Winnipeg. She was ...
CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A British researcher says he is preparing for a yearlong expedition to Greenland, home of the Inuits, the world's northernmost settled people. Dr. Stephen Pax ...
THE 47,000 Inuit who live in Canada’s Arctic speak five dialects of Inuktut and use nine writing systems. The dialects are similar enough that an Inuk from one group can puzzle out what a speaker from ...