across the Canadian far north, and up to the coast of Greenland. While the term Inuit is preferred to Eskimo by many in Canada, the term is retained here because (a) it properly refers to any Eskimo ...

RESOLUTE BAY, Canada — The ancient language of the Inuit, the nomadic hunters of the Arctic, is said to have more than 20 words for snow and a dozen ways to convey the direction “over there.” But ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily. In our recently-published study we took a broad approach towards understanding the ...

FRANZ BOAS didn’t mean to spark a century-long argument. Travelling through the icy wastes of Baffin Island in northern Canada during the 1880s, the anthropologist simply wanted to study the life of ...

As the word 'Eskimo' gets ready to depart from writing and polite conversation, I've regretted having to say goodbye, so I called an old friend who hasn't liked the word for a long time. While I was ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. That old cliché is a lie. It’s long been discredited, or at least ...

Scattered over 1,254,000 sq. mi. of Arctic waste, Canada’s 11,000 Eskimos for centuries have spoken a complicated language. The Eskimo can pack whole sentences into a guttural syllable or two, ...

Brian Adams has spent his photography career reconnecting with his own Inuit culture. Raised in Girdwood, Alaska, Adams is half Iñupiat but grew up largely disconnected from his indigenous culture.