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In 1982, my Grandfather, Nicholas Charles and two other Master Carvers sought to revitalize Yup'ik dancing traditions. Carving Yup'ik masks to be worn during our dance and songs. 34 years later, these heirloom traditions still exist, but are far and few between dance groups. Over the next month and a half, ...
Native Student Council, one of the UAA's cultural organizations, focuses on community engagement, volunteering and collaboration. Through numerous events, they aid in the preservation and spread of Alaska Native culture. Nearly every Alaska Native group is recognized in the council, from Yupik and ...

The OneProtest activists said they were moved not only by UAF students, including DeWilde, but also by the regional advisory committees from Yupik communities in western Alaska. “To the Alaskan Native peoples, pitsaqenrita (Yupik for 'I'm sorry'). We apologize for any offense our initial misunderstanding ...
Ayaprun Elitnaurvik student Austin Amos working on his Yup'ik Word of the Week project. Credit Aleina Tanabe / KYUK. The “Yup'ik Word of the Week” program has a new sound and a new look for 2018. KYUK's multimedia department worked with the 4th, 5th, and 6th graders from Ayaprun Elitnaurvik to ...
Phillip "Ossie” Kairaiuak is a Yupik artist and a member of the well-known indigenous music group Pamyua. He's a composer, playwright, and storyteller who is currently writing a feature-length screenplay entirely in Yup'ik. He was awarded the GCI-Walter Kaitz Fellowship on December 10 in Anchorage.
Schimmel is Siberian Yupik and Kenaitze Indian. “The issue of climate change is very important for Native youth because it affects our traditions — our hunting traditions, our fishing traditions, our berry picking traditions,” said Schimmel. Schimmel wants the team to tackle solutions to problems Alaska Native ...

Alaska Commercial Company stores are using labels written in Yupik in conjunction with a smartphone app that reads the label aloud, KYUK-AM reported Wednesday. ... Children who are in immersion programs will benefit by seeing and hearing the Yupik language outside of the classroom, Pickett said.
In April 2017, 16-year-old Agragiiq became a striker. The young Siberian Yupik hunter, whose Western name is Chris Apassingok, stood at the bow of a little metal boat chasing a 57-foot-long female bowhead whale through the icy waters of the Bering Sea. Other boats in his hunting party also chased the ...
Oral tradition preserves memories of a time historians call the Bow and Arrow Wars, when Yupik communities fought each other in bloody battles sometime before Russian explorers arrived in Alaska in the 1700s. Nunalleq offers the first archaeological evidence, and the first firm date, for this frightful period, which affected ...
He's also a traditional drummer and dancer; Yupik culture is important to him. Kate McWilliams grew up in Bethel. She's passionate about the Y-K Delta's culture too, particularly the ways in which its communities have adapted to their environment. "I grew up here and I think I want to live here for the rest of ...
They did one up in, I think, in the Kuskokwim last year interviewing some Yupik people,” Katasse said. “They travel to different communities and they want people to tell their stories.” Juneau's production would be the latest in Ping Chong and Company's “Undesirable Elements” series. “One of the themes ...
The Yupik people have lived in coastal areas along the Bering Sea for thousands of years. Andrew Burton / Getty Images. Joseph John Jr. washes freshly caught salmon with his son, Jeremiah John, while. View Slideshow 5 of 5. Joseph John Jr. washes freshly caught salmon with his son, Jeremiah John, ...
Schimmel is Siberian Yupik and Kenaitze Indian. “The issue of climate change is very important for Native youth because it affects our traditions — our hunting traditions, our fishing traditions, our berry picking traditions,” said Schimmel. Schimmel wants the team to tackle solutions to problems Alaska Native ...
Since Alaska's Indigenous population contains sizeable communities of both Inuit and Yupik, the term Eskimo is still used in that state as an inclusive term. The national Inuit organization in Canada doesn't care for the term “Eskimo.” And that should be taken into account. Peoples have a right to name ...
Michael's art is rooted in his culture, both Yupik and Inupiaq, he said, and he has evolved from carving masks to sculpting. “Oftentimes, I'm ...
This past summer, she worked with a Yupik Eskimo student and other researchers to study “drained lakes” in the Alaskan tundra. As permafrost ...
Ben Charles' spirit mask is one of 18 art pieces acquired by the Alaska Art Bank in 2017. (Photo by Ben Charles). Walk into a courtroom, ...

This Yupik Eskimo word refers to a song created for each child by a respected Elder. He spoke of how, in his childhood, his INQUN helped him ...
The delta is one of the largest in the world; there are more than 50 Yupik and Athabascan villages settled along its rivers and tundra. The day I ...
BETHEL, Alaska (AP) - An Alaska company that owns stores across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has introduced a new way for its customers to support indigenous languages. KYUK-AM reported Wednesday that Alaska Commercial Company stores are using labels in Yupik in conjunction with a ...
An Alaska company that owns stores across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has introduced a new way for its customers to support indigenous ...
“It's become hard to concentrate in her class,” Kairaivak, a Yupik Eskimo, said of his social science research class taught by Professor Judith ...
GettyImages-479487520 Yupik children play on their tablets in a one room house on July 3, 2015 in Newtok, Alaska. Andrew Burton/Getty.
Thirteen years ago, troopers were called to the Yupik Eskimo village of Nunam Iqua, a place once known as Sheldon Point, to arrest Harrison, ...
... in the Gwich'in language and the Inupiaq language and the Yupik language which are three of the languages that we teach here at UAF.
Father Chuck Peterson waves farewell during his final Bethel Mass on Sunday, October 1, 2017. Yup'ik elders, deacons, and their wives ...
Federal grants awarded to the Anchorage School District and Yukon-Koyukuk School District in Fairbanks will fund development and ...
Yup'ik and Gwich'in political activist Desa Jacobsson died at age 69 in Anchorage after a lifetime of raising awareness for Native issues, ...
“It's everything into becoming what the Yupik really were,”. The vision behind Unglu is for kids to learn to speak Yup'ik from their earliest days.
Mary Worm of Kongiganak laughs while telling a story during KYUK's “Waves of Wisdom” series, featuring interviews with YK Delta elders.
In April 2017, 16-year-old Agragiiq became a striker. The young Siberian Yupik hunter, whose Western name is Chris Apassingok, stood at the ...
The muddy square of earth is full of everyday things that the indigenous Yupik people used to survive and to celebrate life here, all left just as they lay when a ...
Phillip "Ossie” Kairaiuak is a Yupik artist and a member of the well-known indigenous music group Pamyua. He's a composer, playwright, and storyteller who is currently writing a feature-length screenplay entirely in Yup'ik. He was awarded the GCI-Walter Kaitz Fellowship on December 10 in Anchorage.
... eventually took on regular clients elsewhere, some as far as native Yupik villages in Alaska, accessible only on bush planes or snowmobiles.
Native dancers in both communities have established an exchange of cultures through their art—Matachin dancers from El Paso, and Yupik ...
How will Alaska Native citizens whose primary language is not English and who have limited ability to read and write be able to use mail-in ...
The group, composed of Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Tlingit, Eyak, Gwich'in and Dena'iana Athabascan tribes, formed in 2002 in Cordova to challenge the fossil fuel and mining industries and demand their rights to a safe and healthy environment.
... of my time connecting the dots between the loss of sea ice caused by climate change, ice-dependent species such as polar bears and walrus, western science, and the traditional ecological knowledge of the Siberian Yupik, Chukchi, and Inupiat people.
The son of Bureau of Indian Affair contracted teachers, Dunham spent his childhood in small Yup'ik villages across Alaska.
Sally Williams uses a sticker that says cucuklillruunga, or "I voted" in Yup'ik to teach the phrase at the Togiak voting site on Aug. 16, 2016.
Alexandra Beuscher, a student at Bard University, traveled to Bethel in early March 2017 to learn more about the relationship between Yup'ik people and seals. Beuscher became interested in this relationship while studying Yup'ik artifacts both made ...
At least that's the feeling of USD third year law student Mallory Schulte, who recently returned from a week spent in Alaska helping the Yupik Eskimos with their tax returns. Schulte, along with five other USD students and a professor, participated in ...
Earlier Yup'ik and Athabascan settlements had been abandoned but as the community grew, Alaska Native people returned. The high school sports teams are named the "Aniak Halfbreeds," which may be jarring to outsiders but in this town is embraced and ...
Oral tradition preserves memories of a time historians call the Bow and Arrow Wars, when Yupik communities fought each other in bloody battles sometime before Russian explorers arrived in Alaska in the 1700s.
A Napaskiak resident requested that whoever they send in the skiffs be able to speak Yup'ik. He also suggested Donlin post the barge schedule to Facebook.
The federally recognized Yupik and Athabascan tribes of the YK delta and officers of the Calista Corporation are holding an intertribal conference to address issues of immediate concern to the areas 56 villages.
Foster is from the community of Twin Hills near Togiak and grew up speaking Yup'ik. It's important for her to pass that knowledge on, she said Tuesday from the Yup'ik classroom, which includes kid-friendly books with titles like "Caqelngataq" and "Atua!
The talent portion of the competition, which Reigh said the contestants had been practicing for several weeks, included piano performances by several girls, singing by others, Yup'ik dance by a Tiny Miss competitor, and a special skit by Little Miss ...
... John's inspirational teachings and stories of traditional ways of healthy living with national best practices. Our new model of care will integrate our services around the customer's needs and incorporate the region's Yup'ik, Cup'ik, and Athabascan ...
Nieuwkomer Donald Ellis uit New York presenteert een fantastische verzameling maskers en gebruiksvoorwerpen van de inuit uit Alaska, waaronder een onweerstaanbaar Yupik-masker (4,8 miljoen euro). Een grote veertiende-eeuwse boeddha domineert ...


 

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