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 ...

Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 5, No. 1, Community Organization and Pattern Change among North Canadian and Alaskan Indians and Eskimos (1963), pp. 23-31 (13 pages) ...

Alaska rewards—no, rather—demands ingenuity. In earlier times, with limited access to metal, Inuit hunters would use frozen fish wrapped in hides as sled runners. These days, enterprising Alaskans ...

July 10, 2008 — Despite eating a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, Alaskan Eskimo are developing subclinical atherosclerosis at an early age, likely due in large part to heavy smoking, a new study ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bone mineral content was measured using direct photon absorptiometry in the forearm bones of Canadian Eskimos in the northern Foxe Basin. The ...

Brian Adams has spent his photography career reconnecting with his own Inuit culture. Raised in Girdwood, Alaska, Adams is half Iñupiat but grew up largely disconnected from his indigenous culture.

Dr. H. L. Shapiro and Dr. F. G. Rainey, of the American Museum of Natural History, have been excavating five hundred arctic tombs at Point Hope, Alaska. The five hundred skeletons are said to form one ...

“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 ...