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Eskimos

An elder wearing sunglasses and a white coat points off into the Arctic distance while standing by another man wearing sunglasses.

New app helps Inuit adapt to changing climate: ‘It’s time for the harpoon and computer to work together’

The Big Fix

Digital tools like SIKU facilitate real-time monitoring and data gathering to give Arctic communities more capacity to track trends in sea ice and wildlife — and plan for the future.  

A person walks through a puddle in Shismaref, Alaska.

An Alaskan village is falling into the sea. Washington is looking the other way.

The Big Melt
The World

Podcast: An Inuit Dialect and Zappa’s Lyrics

The World in Words

Carved from the Arctic

Carved from the Arctic

Land Deal a Bad Deal?

Steve talks about the Inuit settlement with Jason Clay of the organization Cultural Survival. Clay says the agreement fits into an international pattern in which Native peoples have accepted agreements giving them a little of what was once theirs, in fear of otherwise ending up with nothing.

The World

Inuit Settlement Opens Door To Artic Resources

Rick Grant of the CBC reports on the agreement to form a new, self-governing territory in the Canadian North, where the population is largely Inuit. It’s the largest Native land claims settlement ever in North America, and it will open up the area’s vast mineral and petroleum deposits to development.

The World

Eskimos in Russia

Alaskan Eskimos are helping the native people in Siberia relearn how to live off the land. Siberian Yupik used to subsist on marine mammal hunting, but during the Soviet era their hunting was restricted, and know-how and traditions were lost. Jody Seitz reports.