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 ...

In the last century the childlike Eskimos of Alaska, fascinated by the white man’s guns, began shooting walrus and caribou with more enthusiasm than discretion. That, plus annual fluctuations in the ...

In 1954, the Academy gave the award for Documentary Short Subject to the first film in Walt Disney's People & Places series. Titled The Alaskan Eskimo, the film stitched together events in the daily ...

Land reborn -- The privileged and the dispossessed -- Fallen indians -- "A game country without rival in America" -- The saga of the seventy-mile kid -- Bob Marshall's Alaska -- The lost tribe -- "We ...

Krupnik, Igor. 1994. "'Siberians' in Alaska: The Siberian Eskimo Contribution to Alaskan Population Recoveries." Études Inuit. Inuit Studies, 18, (1-2) 49–80. arrow-up Back to top ...

“When a lead dog of a sled team grows old, the Eskimos shoot him,” an Alaskan had warned grimly. And though he still begins his day at 6 a.m. with 30 minutes of calisthenics and an icy bath, Alaska’s ...