The Iñupiat Eskimo lived on Alaska's North Slope for countless generations -- unknown to the outside world. Our culture, social structure and our survival depended on our ability to utilize the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters in the nation’s northernmost town won’t get a chance at the polls after all to repeal the community’s new Inupiat Eskimo name after local officials shot down the ...

In a place like the Alaskan Arctic, local issues often unfold on a national, or even international scale. Oil companies, the state, the federal government, environmental groups — they all have ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Residents in the nation's northernmost community have voted to change the name of the Alaska town to its traditional Inupiat Eskimo name. A slight majority of voters in the largely ...

The borough school board passed a new policy this month making the curriculum change mandatory for students, beginning with freshmen who start in 2017. Pausauraq Jana Harcharek, the Inupiat education ...

A boat drives past a skin boat display in 2005 near whale bones and an arch made of a whale jaw on the beach in a town that was known as Barrow, Alaska. Residents voted in October to change the name ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute has published a book of old, rare and priceless photographs of Inupiat life in the early twentieth century made by an Inupiat photographer and teacher. The book, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Independent photojournalists Will Rose and Kajsa Sjölander were on ...

Inupiaq people, who have inhabited the uppermost one-third of the state of Alaska, known as the Arctic, for millennia, are part of a larger circumpolar indigenous Inuit nation. The current population ...

Elders gathered in Qikiqtaġruk, Alaska, made a new Inupiat word to describe Dene Athabascan peoples during the Ilisaqativut language program in western Alaska (Submitted by Marjorie Tahbone.) Iñupiat ...

What's left for the journalist who burns for the great adventure? Is there anything out there for the modern-day Henry Stanley, who longs to go beyond the edge of the map? The poles? They make ...