One of the platinum-engraved sapphire disks illustrating Earth’s biodiversity that will be housed in the Earth Chamber, designed by Mark Baskinger with Matt Zywica, Maggie Banks, Christie Chong, ...

For thousands of years, Inuit people have marked themselves with tattoos. While designs and meanings vary, tattoos remain a vital part of the culture. But a century ago, the tradition was nearly lost ...

Perhaps in this difficult era we have found ourselves in, looking back to ancient mythology can offer some guidance. The virus that has upended the lives of every human on our planet reminds us that ...

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most unforgiving landscapes. This small cemetery holds the graves of Royal ...

The Manitoba government says it has determined walking tours of an ancient Inuit hunting camp are not authorized, following concerns raised last year — after a tourism operator advertised visits to ...

This May the National Museum of the American Indian was privileged to host four remarkable Inuit women from Nunavut who were in Washington as guests of the Embassy of Canada to attend the opening of ...

WINNIPEG, CANADA—A hunting camp, estimated to be 1,000 years old, will be mapped and examined next week by a research team led by archaeologist Virginia Petch of Northern Lights Heritage Services. The ...

About 1,200 Inuit artists in Nunavut will spend the next two years churning out hand-carved inuksuit to be sold under the Olympic brand for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games - a challenge of volume that ...

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