Mary Simon, who on Monday became the first indigenous person to be named governor general of Canada, has fought to preserve her people’s way of life. Mary Simon ...

VENICE — How do we attempt understanding across difference? What does self-representation mean, and how might it aid in this task? While these questions come up in all kinds of contexts, when in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve been doing “Eskimo kisses” all wrong according to one Inuit mother-daughter pair. Inuit have resided in the arctic for 5,000 ...

While stories of running away were common at other residential schools across Canada, Piita Irniq, now 75, says it would have been impossible at Turquetil Hall, located in Canada’s far north. “You’d ...

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NAIN, Newfoundland, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Rex Holwell has spent his life on the sea ice that forms each winter off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada. Like other Inuit, he learned ...

The ancient and deadly disease of tuberculosis has an unlikely grip on the Canadian Arctic. In a country where the rate of TB is among the world's lowest – 4.8 active cases per 100,000 people – the ...

NORTHAMPTON — Multidisciplinary artist Ella Alkiewicz held up her original piece, “Under the Atsânik.” The canvas depicts a violet sky, snow-capped mountains, a moose standing on grass, and beneath ...