This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — On a bitter late September day ...

Inuit hunter Hjelmer Hammeken spotted a ringed seal near its breathing hole on the Greenland ice. In his white camouflage, he slowly crept towards it then lay down in the snow and waited. When the ...

A new pan-Arctic Inuit organization is taking its case on seal hunting directly to the European Parliament on Thursday. The organization called Inuit Sila is based in Copenhagen and has been defending ...

Baffin Island, Sept. 5, 2013. A polar bear collapses on the ground after being shot by Inuit hunters. The Inuit in Canada have traditionally hunted polar bears for subsistence and income to provide ...

Two tourists from Turkey were in Arctic Bay to document the effects of climate change and to photograph polar bears in the Nunavut territory recently, but wound up in hot water with the locals when ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut Territory ” Simon Nattaq lost both feet to frostbite when his snowmobile crashed through the ice, made thin by rising Arctic temperatures. All his gear plunged into the water too, ...

RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut – Michaelle Jean launched a passionate defence of Canada’s seal hunt against international critics who have decried her participation in an Inuit ritual. In fact, the Governor ...

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- As Makah whale hunters and their attendant protesters gear up for another gray whale season off Washington's northwest coast, Inuit are quietly getting ready for their own whale ...

Canadian musician Tanya Tagaq has spoken up in support of the Inuit seal hunt for many years. In 2014 she received death threats when she posted a “sealfie,” a picture of her infant daughter next to a ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Meeka Mike reaches into a hole in the ice of Frobisher Bay and tugs on the net, pulling out a fat ring seal. Minutes later, the ribs have been cut out to be cooked for dinner, and ...