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 ...

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 ...

As mayor of Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope Borough, Edward Itta understands that developing the region’s energy resources can pay for better schools and much-needed infrastructure improvements. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...