Unlike the traditional snow house, these houses allowed little light through the small windows and had lacked ventilation, which lead to the proliferation of respiratory diseases. These homes were ...

Laimiki Innuaraq has fond memories of living in a traditional Inuit sod house, or qammaq, from 1943 to 1963. The sod house, with the aid of just a single qulliq (a traditional oil lamp), was ...

The Haida still live on the Queen Charlotte Islands, but they no longer live in traditional Northwest Coast houses. Now most of these houses ... The people who live here are called the Inuit. In the ...

Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling to adapt. When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh ...

“Radio is on all the time in Inuit houses,” Dauphinais relates. “It’s really, really the centre of community in a way.” So Dauphinais and Rancourt decided to make this Inuit love of ...