Among Quebec men, the phenotype was associated with an OR of 12 for diabetes, which was similar to the unadjusted OR of 15.6 observed for Inuit with the phenotype. As the proportion of participants ...

Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to adapt. When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh ...

In the Inuit language, tusarnitut means “sounds that please the ear.” It’s a fitting title for a new exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts focused on the power of songs and music in ...

Because Inuit people were nomadic, Adams wanted to start the project by crossing a broad region of land and sea. "I liked the idea of traveling in the footsteps of our ancestors," Adams said.

But our results suggest the Inuit snow vocabulary is indeed exceptional. Out of 616 languages, the language with the top score for “snow” was Eastern Canadian Inuktitut.

Profile: Inuit Actor Orto Ignatiussen When a local theater director in a tiny town in East Greenland landed a part in a Hollywood blockbuster, he thought it might be the beginning of big things ...

The genomes of indigenous people in Greenland (pictured) show how they have adapted to thousands of years of frigid temperatures and a diet that is rich in fatty seafood. Rasmus Nielsen at the ...

An Inuit family in 1942 in Kinngait (then Cape Dorset), Nunavut. Traditionally, elders or parents named the children, often after blood relatives, revered leaders or hunters, or exceptional people ...

Item 1 of 2 Canadian Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Gary Anandasangaree delivers an apology to the Inuit of northern Quebec on behalf of the government for the mass killing of sled dogs in ...

The narwhal with its unique, spiraling tusk has inspired legends in Inuit society and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. On Aug. 3, a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ...

All Inuit had a gene variation that helps them build more brown fat. Unlike white fat, which just contains calories, brown fat burns energy and produces heat.