With substantial communal lands on the slope, the 5,000 Inupiat scattered among seven remote villages and the town of Barrow stand to become the newest oil barons of the 21st century. But in the ...

After the C-130 landed, Donald “Nok” Acker of the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), a nonprofit research support organization founded by Inupiat Eskimos, picked me up in his mud ...

For 10 months in a span of five years, Yüyan lived among the Inupiat in Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow). He camped with a crew on the sea ice to watch for whales, often volunteering for the ...

Hess evokes the spare pleasures of Inupiat life, the simple fellowship ... The drama unfolded for days as underdressed reporters raced to Point Barrow. Hunters repeatedly chain-sawed holes in ...

Utqiagvik was formerly known as Barrow but residents voted in 2016 to change it back to its traditional name, given by the Native Alaskan Inupiat people. Forecasters took to social media to ...

More and more news services send their reporters to Barrow to cover the story ... And the local indigenous group, the Inupiat, initially plan to harvest the whales in their certain death in ...

BARROW, Alaska — Standing on the sidelines ... arctic foxes and 4,600 people — more than half of whom are native Inupiat Eskimo — call home. The discovery of oil in nearby Prudhoe Bay ...

In 1958 the US Atomic Energy Commission planned to detonate thermonuclear bombs near Point Hope North Americas oldest continually inhabited settlement History of the Iñupiat Project Chariot tells ...