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The Delta Discovery
February 14, 2018
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,ÃÂ ...
UAA Northern Light
January 29, 2018
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 andÃÂ ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
January 19, 2018
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 misunderstandingÃÂ ...
KYUK
January 2, 2018
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 toÃÂ ...
KYUK
December 18, 2017
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.
KTOO
December 12, 2017
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 NativeÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 8, 2017
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.
Indian Country Today Media Network
August 30, 2017
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 theÃÂ ...
National Geographic
March 15, 2017
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 affectedÃÂ ...
KYUK
December 31, 1999
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 ofÃÂ ...
KTOO
December 31, 1999
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 themesÃÂ ...
90.3 KAZU
December 21, 2017
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,ÃÂ ...
KTOO
December 12, 2017
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 NativeÃÂ ...
Edmonton Sun
November 23, 2017
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 ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
November 22, 2017
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 ...
Yale Climate Connections
November 21, 2017
This past summer, she worked with a Yupik Eskimo student and other researchers to study “drained lakes” in the Alaskan tundra. As permafrost ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
November 21, 2017
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, ...
Juneau Empire
November 12, 2017
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 ...
Juneau Empire
November 10, 2017
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 IÂ ...
KTUU.com
November 9, 2017
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 ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 8, 2017
An Alaska company that owns stores across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has introduced a new way for its customers to support indigenous ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
November 2, 2017
“It's become hard to concentrate in her class,” Kairaivak, a Yupik Eskimo, said of his social science research class taught by Professor Judith ...
Newsweek
October 27, 2017
GettyImages-479487520 Yupik children play on their tablets in a one room house on July 3, 2015 in Newtok, Alaska. Andrew Burton/Getty.
craigmedred.news
October 7, 2017
Thirteen years ago, troopers were called to the Yupik Eskimo village of Nunam Iqua, a place once known as Sheldon Point, to arrest Harrison, ...
webcenter11
October 7, 2017
... 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.
KYUK
October 5, 2017
Father Chuck Peterson waves farewell during his final Bethel Mass on Sunday, October 1, 2017. Yup'ik elders, deacons, and their wives ...
Cordova Times
October 4, 2017
Federal grants awarded to the Anchorage School District and Yukon-Koyukuk School District in Fairbanks will fund development and ...
Alaska Public Radio Network
September 26, 2017
Yup'ik and Gwich'in political activist Desa Jacobsson died at age 69 in Anchorage after a lifetime of raising awareness for Native issues, ...
KTOO
September 21, 2017
“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.
KTOO
September 15, 2017
Mary Worm of Kongiganak laughs while telling a story during KYUK's “Waves of Wisdom” series, featuring interviews with YK Delta elders.
Indian Country Today Media Network
August 30, 2017
In April 2017, 16-year-old Agragiiq became a striker. The young Siberian Yupik hunter, whose Western name is Chris Apassingok, stood at the ...
National Geographic
March 15, 2017
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 ...
KYUK
December 31, 1999
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.
Madison.com
August 22, 2017
... eventually took on regular clients elsewhere, some as far as native Yupik villages in Alaska, accessible only on bush planes or snowmobiles.
KTEP
August 12, 2017
Native dancers in both communities have established an exchange of cultures through their art—Matachin dancers from El Paso, and YupikÃÂ ...
KYUK
December 31, 1999
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-inÃÂ ...
Chico News & Review
March 23, 2017
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.
Metro
March 23, 2017
... 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.
Anchorage Press
March 23, 2017
The son of Bureau of Indian Affair contracted teachers, Dunham spent his childhood in small Yup'ik villages across Alaska.
KTOO
March 20, 2017
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.
KYUK
March 20, 2017
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 ...
Vermillion Plain Talk
March 18, 2017
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 ...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 16, 2017
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 andÃÂ ...
National Geographic
March 15, 2017
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.
KYUK
March 14, 2017
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 Delta Discovery
March 13, 2017
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.
Alaska Dispatch News
March 13, 2017
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!
Bristol Bay Times
March 10, 2017
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 ...
Consultancy.uk
March 10, 2017
... 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 ...
NRC
March 9, 2017
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 domineertÃÂ ...
