Edited film shot by William Van Valin as leader of the John Wanamaker Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The film, that later toured in a film-lecture series ...

Alaskan Eskimos' significantly higher rates of fatty artery plaque than the general U.S. population may be due to unhealthy lifestyle habits, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American ...

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 ...

I. The Setting. The Land. The People. The Eskimos of Northwest Alaska. The Naupaktomiut and Their Neighbors. An Ethnographic Reconstruction. The Historic Noatak People. The Modern People -- II. The ...

Alaska has a high proportion of intermarriages between Jewish and Christian men and Eskimo women, Dr. Victor E. Levine, just returned from a 20,000-mile expedition to the Arctic to study the medical ...

Kipnuk, Alaska — The 800 Yup’ik Eskimos in this wet and lonely village knew the situation was serious when government scientists began swooping in on bush planes. Except for a few doctors that fly in ...

Ezra Elisoff of Juneau takes his turn during the Two Foot High Kick finals at the 2021 World Eskimo-Indian Olympics in Fairbanks. Elisoff won third place male for the Two Foot High Kick, second place ...

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 ...