On the election trail, Canada's federal leaders are pushing military and industry in the North. Sara Olsvig, head of the ...

Native Alaskans are divided into three broad groups: the Aleuts, the Inuit, and the many ... 15 percent of the total Alaskan population of approximately 648,000 people. Since the 1960s and 1970s ...

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Excerpted from The Native People of Alaska by Steve J. Langdon, published by Greatland Graphics, Anchorage, 1978. Used with permission Alaska's indigenous people, who are jointly called Alaska ...

Unlike the Inuit people in Canada and Alaska, who have largely traded dog sleds for snowmobiles, Polar Inuit have maintained their age-old skills of hunting with sled dogs for subsistence ...

"People looking at the health of the Inuit have demonstrated that the traditional ... live in the world's Arctic regions, across Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Norway and Russia, Smit said.

Similarly, Canada has a large Inuit population of 70,000 people. By contrast, the United States has a small population of only 17,000 Inuit, centered in Alaska, a continent away from Greenland.