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 group, not only the Inuit; and (b) its use is widespread in Native ...

Alternate terms, Inuit–Yupik (for Alaska: Inupiat–Yupik) have been proposed. Two main groups have historically been referred to as Eskimos by outsiders: the Yupik and Inuit, especially the ...

An experienced physician assistant recently moved to the land of the Yupik Eskimo, in southwestern Alaska. Under the pen name "The Tundra PA," she writes about her experiences living and ...

Dr. Jay De Soca Prince, culture critic Sharine Taylor and Inuk writer Jamesie Fournier discuss how the term’s normalization continues to harm many Inuit.

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IIrgu is an elder from the Siberian Yupik Eskimo village of Gambell on St Lawrence Island As two grandchildren listen IIrgu recounts events in Gambell from the time the first missionaries arrived ...

Dance was once at the heart of Yupik Eskimo spiritual and social life. It was the bridge between the ancient and the new, the living and the dead and a person's own power and the greater powers of ...