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The phrase that sparked a controversy and a new round of conversations about what the word “Eskimo” means to Alaska Natives. Download Audio Alaska Native’s discuss what ‘Eskimo’ means to ...
Iñupiat people are part of an Inuit group, which includes indigenous people in northern Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland and Russia. "Since 2007, [I am] really just trying to reconnect to my ...
SEATTLE -- As part of a broad brand update, Alaska Airlines on Monday unveiled a makeover for the company’s logo and iconic Eskimo face that has been on the tail of the carrier’s airplane ...
In Alaska, between 2,000 and 3,000 people perished. Historian Alfred W. Crosby detailed the 1918 flu in Alaska in his book, America's Forgotten Pandemic. He estimated that 8 percent of the Alaska ...
The name “Eskimo” has long been used by non-native groups to refer collectively to Inuit and Yupik people, according to the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska.
The term “eskimo” is divisive across much of the arctic, but it’s still being used in western Alaska. Some identify with it, while others want to see change. Download Audio ...
This Oscar-winning film from the 1950s shows daily life in a northern Alaskan community, as it was then. A lot has changed ...
Hundreds of years ago, the Native people of Alaska's coastal whaling settlements had a unique way of communicating when a hunt had been successful. The vast, icy plains had few hills, so it was ...
Alaskan Eskimo participants of the Alaska Siberia Project had a significantly lower ... Adoption of non-traditional lifestyles by Eskimo people has been recent and rapid, 10,11,12 but little ...
They came across the Bering Sea from present-day Russia to Alaska, perhaps 4,000-4,500 years ago, partly displacing and mixing with earlier migrants: the Na-Dene people. 2. Na-Dene: 3,000-8,000 BC ...