IT was in early October that for the first time in my life I saw the sea congeal, saw the moving waters freeze and petrify in waves, in ridges, and in hollows. There are many people round the world ...
We’ve been doing “Eskimo kisses” all wrong according to one Inuit mother-daughter pair. Inuit have resided in the arctic for 5,000 years. Their territory spans the modern-day Chukotka Peninsula of ...
A compelling biography of the Eskimo boy who was brought back to the U.S. by explorer Robert Peary recreates the twelve agonizing years little Minik spent living as an alien in New York City, an ...
WHEN Dr. Nansen reached the west coast of Greenland, after his memorable journey across the continent, he found that the last ship of the year had left for Europe, although he had altered his plans ...
All along the lower Yukon, Eskimos in sealskin mukluks last week mushed their snarling dog teams to a place called Alakanuk—which means, in Eskimo, “It’s a mistake.”* They came to tell their political ...
Though singer-songwriter Kristan Leontiou was already an established musician in the U.K., he was unsatisfied with his public image. In a swift and surprising move, he walked away from success to ...
On a six-months’ trip into the Far North, traveling by dog sled, boat and air-plane, Dr. Victor E. Levine, professor of biological chemistry and nutrition at Creighton University of Omaha, passed ...
A 6-foot bronze sculpture of the Eskimo curlew, which is likely extinct, will stand at Galveston Island State Park as part of the “Lost Bird Project.” While the ceremony unveiling the sculpture was ...
For the Eskimos of Pond Inlet - a new village in North Baffin Island in which they have been settled by the Canadian Government – the life of the semi-nomadic hunter has given way to that of ...