Eskimo Olympics - Natives train for the Olympics. This year it was held on July 18, 2013.

The 52nd World Eskimo Indian Olympics (WEIO) is in the Interior city of Fairbanks, making this a chance to witness spectacular competitions of strength, endurance and agility, as well as traditional Native crafts and dance.
The games feature mostly Alaska Native competitors, although a group from Greenland is returning for the third consecutive year.
Popular events include the blanket toss, where people are flung into the air on blankets made of walrus skin; and the ear pull, a nail-biting event for onlookers where competitors face off in a tug-of-war, using twine looped around one ear.
Fairbanks has hosted WEIO since 1961. In the years since its inception, the games have continued to grow, garnering more participants, onlookers, and media coverage. The website offers a traditional perspective on the games:

To better appreciate the background of these games, envision yourself in a community village hut three hundred years ago with the temperature outside at 60 degrees below zero, and everybody in attendance celebrating a successful seal hunt. While the young men are demonstrating their athletic prowess and strength, the umialiks, or whaling captains, are on the perimeter of the hut looking with great interest at the young adults – one or more of these young men would be incorporated into their whaling and hunting crews – the fastest, the strongest, the one showing great balance and endurance to pain would be the top pick.