Confused about the word Eskimo? It's a commonly used term referring to the native peoples of Alaska and other Arctic regions, including Siberia, Canada and Greenland. It comes from a Central ...

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More than 400 miles from Anchorage, the only way to get to Bethel, Alaska, is by boat or plane. In the remote city, travel is still an obstacle: The main road is a frozen river six months out of the ...

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Ancient human DNA is shedding light on the peopling of the Arctic region of the Americas, revealing that the first people there did not leave any genetic descendants in the New World, unlike ...

Aaron Leggett, the president of Native Village of Eklutna, discusses misconceptions and the history of the word "Eskimo" during ANTIQUES ROADSHOW'S 2023 stop in Anchorage, Alaska. Antiques Roadshow is ...

Changing attitudes toward the word "Eskimo" were recognized at the national level on Friday when President Barack Obama signed legislation that replaced that term with "Alaska Native" in federal laws.

As humans spread out of Africa and settled the rest of the world tens of thousands of years ago, one geographic location was the last frontier that people conquered: the North American Arctic. The ...

Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the ...

Alaska's World Eskimo-Indian Olympics moved to Anchorage last week, after 45 years in Fairbanks. The games include events such as the Alaskan high... Eskimo-Indian Olympics Capture Native Traditions ...