Inuit people have been here for more than 5000 years and call it Ikpiarjuk — “in the pocket”, which aptly describes the hamlet clinging to the bay and the lowest slopes of the surrounding steep hills.

They stayed several centuries, building small communities, walrus hunting, ... Interestingly, the Inuit ancestors of the majority of today’s Greenlanders only came to the island 800 years ago.

The jewellery she crafts is adorned with Inuit symbols of life and survival. ... from a time when hunters used walrus tusks and bones to make hunting tools, amulets, or toys.

There were just a few dozen nomadic people living along the banks of the Hudson Bay in 1920 when Inukjuak was a trading post known as Port Harrison and a former iron ore prospector named Robert J.

Indigenous identity is seeing a revival in Greenland ahead of a March 11 general election called after U.S. President Donald Trump said he wanted to acquire the strategically located Arctic island.

In the frozen far north, in Arctic Quebec, the Inuit have relied on the same nutritious foods culled from the oceans for centuries: beluga whale, fish, seal, and walrus. But some of these ...

Medieval Norse settlers in Greenland travelled deep into the Arctic, including parts of what is now Canada, to hunt walruses and feed Europe’s booming ivory trade, suggests a recent study.

Walrus ivory was a prized commodity in medieval Europe, and Vikings would harvest the creatures’ tusks during hunting expeditions in Greenland and then bring them back to the mainland to trade.

They would have been inhabited by the Thule Inuit and possibly other Indigenous Arctic peoples, who were also hunting walrus and other sea mammals. The new research provides further independent ...