President Obama has signed a bill that removes the words “Oriental,” “Eskimo” and “Aleut” from two federal programs. The Alaskan terms, though, live on in other U.S. laws. Contrary to some accounts in ...

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 ...

It's getting harder and harder for the few remaining residents of the Aleutian and Pribilof islands who speak Aleut to hold a conversation in the native Alaskan language. The number of Alaskans who ...

Changing attitudes toward the word "Eskimo" were recognized at the national level on Friday when President Barack Obama signed legislation that replaced that term with "Alaska Native" in federal laws.

The last native speaker of the Aleut language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, has died at the age of 86 in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka region. The chairwoman of the regional council of the Aleut ...