Like many Indigenous people of North America, Miali Coley-Sudlovenick fears that her native language is dying. European colonization left Inuit struggling to preserve their culture and tongue in an ...

Alexina Kublu, Nunavut’s third languages commissioner and first justice of the peace, recently passed away at age 71.

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, ...

Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- ...

Jose Kusugak, a longtime defender of Inuit rights, language and culture in Canada, has died. He was 60 years old. Kusugak, who had been battling bladder cancer for more than a year, was surrounded by ...