The Pueblo Indians of the Southwest prayed for rain, while the Inuits of Alaska honored the whale and caribou that sustained them. |
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In 1953, in order to make room for a new Nike missile battery, the US commander gave the Inuits but four days to evacuate their homes. |
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But in between campaigns, the Canadian Inuits have stunning rates of suicide, substance abuse and disease. |
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My background is Inupiaq Eskimo, which is the northern most tribe of Inuits in Alaska. |
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The member of a very rare blood group most often found among Inuits of northern Canada. |
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Of the two types, the hepatitis B virus or HBV poses the greatest health threat and most affects Chinese, Africans and Inuits. |
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The Inuits of Alaska also tattooed themselves in preparation for death rituals. |
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Anthropologists agree that Greenland's modern Inuits are descended from the Thule. |
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Marine mammals which have high levels of contaminants stored in their fat, organs, and skin are heavily consumed by Inuits as part of their traditional diets. |
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There are, however, major differences between the diet of Faroese and the diet of Inuits, and care must be exerted before one concludes that Inuit children are at risk. |
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Caucasians, Africans, Asians, or Inuits are types for a typologist that conspicuously differ from other human ethnic groups and are sharply separated from them. |
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It's a generic term for one of the tribes of Native Americans who live in the far north of the continent, but Inuits, like their Yupik neighbours, don't like the term. |
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South Asians in Britain, Inuits in Canada, Maoris in New Zealand, and Aborigines in Australia receive poorer care and less care than their non-minority countrymen. |
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Public station KYUK in Bethel, Alaska, broadcasts a small amount of programming in Yupik, the language of the local Inuits. |
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Mr Dennis' boats have to be larger because most sell to white people who are generally taller than Inuits. |
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Now the territory's rate is 11 times the Canadian average and more than 20 Inuits die of suicides each year. |
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You probably haven't seen Inuits on the evening news, but some hunters have died after falling through unseasonably thin ice. |
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It's taking even longer for them to straighten out their plurals, the tendency being to simply add an 's', calling us Inuits. |
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Most of the 222 suicides have been committed by young male Inuits. |
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She worries about the fate of the 140,000 Inuits in Canada's Arctic because they have unwittingly absorbed toxic chemicals from polluters thousands of miles to the south. |
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Inuits ran several teams using traditional wooden sleds called komatiks. |
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Some Inuits used light crossbows for hunting, and it is not unreasonable to assume this technology may have come across the Beringian land bridge from northeastern Asia. |
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