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Marvel Comics Introduces Indigenous Superhero

By Cecily Hilleary | VOA News on May 24, 2018   Featured, General News, National/World, World  

Marvel Comics Introduces Indigenous Superhero

WASHINGTON —She’s young, has super powers and is indigenous! This week, a new superhero makes her debut in Marvel Comics’ Champion series: Amka Aliyak, alias Snowguard, an Inuit teenager who hails from the town of Pangnirtung, in Nunavut, one of the four regions that comprise the homeland for the Inuit population of Canada. She debuted in Champion’s […]

Old World Metals Traded on Alaska Coast Hundreds of Years Before Contact

By Amy Patterson Neubert | Purdue University on Jun 11, 2016   North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Rural, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Old World Metals Traded on Alaska Coast Hundreds of Years Before Contact

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Two leaded bronze artifacts found in northwestern Alaska are the first evidence that metal from Asia reached prehistoric North America prior to contact with Europeans, according to new Purdue University research.  “This is not a surprise based on oral history and other archaeological finds, and it was just a matter of […]

Adaptation to High-Fat Diet, Cold had Profound Effect on Inuit, Including Shorter Height

By Robert Sanders | University of California-Berkeley on Sep 18, 2015   Featured, Science/Education  

Adaptation to High-Fat Diet, Cold had Profound Effect on Inuit, Including Shorter Height

The traditional diet of Greenland natives – the Inuit – is held up as an example of how high levels of omega-3 fatty acids can counterbalance the bad health effects of a high-fat diet, but a new study hints that what’s true for the Inuit may not be true for everyone else. The study, which […]

The Loneliest Camp on Earth

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Aug 7, 2015   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

The Loneliest Camp on Earth

One of the quietest places in Alaska was temporarily home to a few hardy people when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. An archaeologist has fleshed out what life might have been like during a winter on St. Matthew Island in the 1600s. In some ways, St. Matthew, more than 200 miles from the nearest […]

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