After Alaska Airlines unveiled a new look for its airplanes and website, many Alaska Natives took offense to a phrase in its new marketing campaign, which sparked a controversy and a new round of ...

In the process of tweaking its brand for the first time in 25 years, Alaska Airlines learned more about what the Eskimo on the tail of its aircraft represents to Alaska Natives. Since 1972, when the ...

The term “eskimo” is divisive across much of the arctic, but it’s still being used in western Alaska. Some identify with it, while others want to see change. President Obama recently removed the words ...

Alaskan Eskimos' significantly higher rates of fatty artery plaque than the general U.S. population may be due to unhealthy lifestyle habits, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American ...

CHICAGO -- Genetic testing of Iñupiat people currently living in Alaska's North Slope is helping Northwestern University scientists fill in the blanks on questions about the migration patterns and ...

Alaska frontier food has always blended practicality and indigenous tradition, combining influences from Inuit populations, Russian fur trappers, Yukon gold prospectors, and other groups who have ...

The updated livery and logo on Alaska Airlines, including the Eskimo logo that has been there since 1972. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) A company rebranding campaign turned into a P.R. mess for Alaska ...

JUNEAU — He could be considered the Justin Bieber of Alaska. Teen Internet sensation Byron Nicholai is a Yup’ik Eskimo from Toksook Bay, a tiny island just off Alaska’s mainland in the Bering Sea. The ...