The Iñupiat Eskimo lived on Alaska's North Slope for countless generations -- unknown to the outside world. Our culture, social structure and our survival depended on our ability to utilize the ...

City of Barrow will change name to Utqiagvik and is also seeking to use the Iñupiat word for stop on its traffic signs Residents of the northernmost community in the US have voted to change their city ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska voters in the nation’s northernmost town won’t get a chance at the polls after all to repeal the community’s new Inupiat Eskimo name after local officials shot down the ...

In a place like the Alaskan Arctic, local issues often unfold on a national, or even international scale. Oil companies, the state, the federal government, environmental groups — they all have ...

Iñupiat artist Susan Ringstad Emery is the featured artist for First Friday this month at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation in downtown Anchorage. In her solo exhibit "Interwoven," she illustrates the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Doreen Leavitt of the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope told House members during the Nov. 29 hearing. (Photo/Hearing ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute has published a book of old, rare and priceless photographs of Inupiat life in the early twentieth century made by an Inupiat photographer and teacher. The book, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Residents in the nation's northernmost community have voted to change the name of the Alaska town to its traditional Inupiat Eskimo name. A slight majority of voters in the largely ...

As the first snows coat Alaska, families are bracing for a long and difficult winter in the midst of historically high energy prices. Across the Lower 48, many will face similar hardships as heating ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Inupiat community in far northern Alaska is mourning the deaths of two whale hunters who died when their boat capsized while they were towing a bowhead whale home to help ...