It’s an old adage, that the Inuit language has over fifty words for snow. And yet, this popular misconception is not too far from the truth. That’s because, as researchers from the University of ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

Anthropologist Franz Boas didn't mean to spark a century-long argument. Traveling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, Boas simply wanted to study the life of ...

MISSIONARIES in northern Canada saw themselves as spreading the “three Cs” among the region’s Inuit peoples: Christianity, commerce and civilisation. But in translating the Bible and other religious ...

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 ...