In the eighth grade at Clark Junior High School in Anchorage, students were all required to study Alaska History. Fair enough, but since the great state of Alaska was only a few decades old at that ...

When I was a child growing up in Rankin Inlet, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut), I remember hearing stories about the Northern Lights, talking lemmings, dancing ravens, Qallupilluit (sea monsters), ...

An uncanny figurine of a mutant fish-man rests next to a cool stone sculpture of a polar bear. The strange creatures that straddle the line between sea and shore, man and animal, are unique to ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents “Arctic Journeys/ Ancient Memories: The Sculpture of Abraham Anghik Ruben,” an exhibition that explores parallels between the ancient ...

Sedna, goddess of the sea, is the most frequently depicted of the deities in Inuit mythology. One interpretation sees her as a giant, canine-humping goddess with an insatiable hunger - a craving so ...

With Ajjiit, husband-and-wife team Sean A. Tinsley and Rachel A. Qitsualik, who individually have published many short stories and articles on Inuit cultural lore and shamanism, have employed ...