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 | | There are about 1,700 Yupik in Russia; only about 800 still speak a Yupik dialect with any fluency (most speak Central Siberian Yupik, the same dialect also spoken by a few hundred people on Alaska's St. Lawrence Island. | | | The Yupik were animists whose beliefs showed much similarity with those of the Chukchi. | | | The Yupik, like the Chukchi and Korak, believed that Raven had created the world. |
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http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/aleut.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Israel's first Eskimo soldier |
| | Eva and Jimmy were brought to Israel (they learned to speak Hebrew in three months), converted to Judaism and integrated into Israeli society among the Orthodox community of Nir Etzion, a village near Haifa. | | | Eva and Jimmy could speak Yupik and Hebrew | | | Eva was born to a Yupik Eskimo mother and a Cherokee American father before being adopted by an Israeli couple. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3288515.stm
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| | Inuit / Yupik |
| | Russia was going through a time of economic fall-off that left almost no resources for any political work and one of the only grass-root movements in Chukotka that exists today is the organisation "Yupik". | | | But in the mid-1990ies a tightening of the democratic freedom began as Governor Aleksandr V. Nazarov put a limit on all political activity and thereby also on the contacts that had been established with the Yupik populations of Alaska. | | | A number of grass-root movements grew out after the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
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http://www.connexion-dte.dk/inuityupik_en.htm
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| | Central Yup'ik and the Schools |
| | Layered over the original pre-contact Yup'ik Eskimo culture is a stratum of early nineteenth-century Euro-American Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic. | | | Missionaries successfully persuaded Yup'iks to give up their own religion in favor of Christianity by claiming that the latter was a universally appropriate religion. | | | This gemination does not occur in Siberian Yupik. |
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http://www.alaskool.org/language/central_yupik/yupik.html
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| | White Dove's Native American Indian Site Eskimo (Yupik.Inupiat/inuit) |
| | The Inupiaq and Inuit people speak localized dialects that stretch in a continuum from Norton Sound in Alaska northward and all the way across the continent to Greenland. | | | The Siberian Yupik communities on St. Lawrence Island, where larger patrilineal descent groups function as political and economic units, is an exception to this Eskimo pattern. | | | Seal parties, during which the seal meat and numerous small household items are given away, are another common ceremonial event; these are given by the woman of the household in the spring when the men and boys bring home their first seals of the year. |
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http://users.multipro.com/whitedove/encyclopedia/eskimo-yupik-inupiat-inuit.html
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| | GeoNative - Alaskan and Siberian Eskimos - Inupiaq - Yupik - Aleut |
| | Spoken in the east coast of Alaska and Nunivak island, there are 15.000 speakers out of an ethnic group of 17.000. | | | The Asiatic Eskimos or Siberian Yupik use the self-designation yuhyt 'people' or yupikhyt 'real people'. | | | Central Siberian Yupik is also spoken: there are 300 speakers out of an ethnic group of 1.500 in Siberia (Russia), and around 1.000 speakers in Alaska. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/inupiaq.html
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| | Alaska Native Heritage Center |
| | The Inupiaq and the St. Lawrence Island Yupik People, or “Real People,” are still hunting and gathering societies. | | | The Inupiaq and St. Lawrence Island Yupik tended to live in small groups of related families of 20-200 people. | | | Population at time of contact included five main units: |
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http://www.alaskanative.net/36.asp
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| | Russian Mission |
| | The local police office reports a drop in crime in the village since the program began. | | | And perhaps most importantly, youth here are becoming spokespeople for the Yupik culture, and realizing that their way of life is valued by people around the world. | | | Moments like these illustrate that the Yupik people have their own education system, and a deep body of knowledge, developed over thousands of years of working together to subsist from the land and water. |
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http://www.whatkidscando.org/featurestories/russianmission.html
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| | yupik eskimo - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | Alaska--Church History, Aleuts--Missions, Aleuts--Religion, Christianity And Culture, Christianity And Other Religions--Shamanism, Indigenous Peoples--Alaska--Religion, Orthodox Eastern Church--Missions--Alaska, Pacific Gulf Yupik Eskimos--Missions, Pacific Gulf Yupik Eskimos--Religion, Shamanism--Alaska, Shamanism--Relations--Christianity | | | The Yupik Eskimo group was chosen because it is... | | | This village, which at first appears...this time is Yupik. |
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http://www.questia.com/search/yupik-eskimo
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| | May/June 1994 |
| | The Eskimo people who live on the Island speak Yupik... | | | Including the Yupik project, Wycliffe missionaries still have 30 active language projects among Native American peoples. | | | With great excitement, the Alaskan Christians told their relatives about their Christian faith. |
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http://www.missionfrontiers.org/1994/0506/mj9421.htm
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| | Yup'ik Mask receives emergency root canal! |
| | CAM Member Dr. Lori Lemire performs a root canal on a Yup'ik Mask | | | School groups had come in to see the exhibit My Stories Have Come To Be and meet with the artist Philip Charette, a Native American from the Yup'ik tribe in Alaska. | | | Charette's masks, created out clay and ceramic, are contemporary interpretations of traditional wooden Yup'ik masks. |
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http://www.coosart.org/yupik/yupik_article.html
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| | Yupik - Central Siberian |
| | Yupik - Siberian has 300 speakers out of 1,200 to 1,500 population in Russia and 800 speakers (1990 census), out of 1,000 population in Alaska; 1,100 in all countries. |
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http://www.flw.com/languages/yupik.htm
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| | Yupik language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are about 3,000 Alutiiqs, but only 500 – 1,000 people still speak this language. | | | The earliest efforts at writing Yupik were those of missionaries who, with their Yupik-speaking assistants, translated the Bible and other religious texts into Yupik. | | | The Yupik people speak five distinct languages, depending on their location. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yupik_language
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| | SiberianYupik |
| | This means that they can speak English and Siberian Yupik. | | | The people of St. Lawrence Island are the only Siberian Yupik Eskimos in the United States of America. | | | Savoonga is known as "Walrus Capital of the World." The people on St. Lawrence Island live a subsistence lifestyle. |
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http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3877/SiberianYupik.html
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| | McClung Museum - ALWAYS GETTING READY: Yup'ik Eskimo Subsistence |
| | Traditionally the Yup'iks were semi-nomadic, with family groups moving from one camp to another procuring various foods. | | | Astonished that these people lived comfortably in a place he perceived to be cold and desolate, Barker wanted to know more about the Yup'ik people and their land. | | | Central Yup'ik Eskimos call themselves yup'iit which means "real people." Yup'ik is the central language, although children learn English in school and from television, and many middle-aged people in the community are bilingual. |
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http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/yupik/yupik.htm
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| | Yupik |
| | Many Yupik people still speak the Yupik language. | | | There are more Yupik people than any other Alaskan Native people. | | | The Yupik people also live like their ancestors did. |
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http://library.thinkquest.org/3877/Yupik.html
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| | Eskimo - Arctic Studies Center |
| | As a Siberian Yupik growing up on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, I heard stories of the other Siberian Yupik people who lived in the forbidding Soviet Union. | | | For forty years the Cold War had cut off all communication and travel in the Bering Sea region. | | | This population is further subdivided into two groups: the Inupiat (Inupiaq in the singular) for Native Alaskans from the north and northwest, and Yupik and Siberian Yupik for those in the southwest and St. Lawrence Island. |
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http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/modeskim.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - Inuit |
| | Yupik languages are spoken by about 17,000 people, including some 1,000 in the former Soviet Union. | | | The first book in Inupiaq was published in 1742. | | | These various languages are used for the first year of school in some parts of Siberia, for religious instruction and education in schools under Inuit control in Alaska, and in schools and communications media in Canada and Greenland. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761561130___4/Inuit.html
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| | Our Yupik Neighbors of Goodnews Bay, Alaska |
| | The proud Yupik People were here long before we came and will still call the Goodnews River home long after we have left. | | | To further protect the land and its people, an educational fund has been established to directly benefit the children of Goodnews Village. | | | In fact, Yupik grass-woven baskets are considered among the finest in the world, having intricate patterns and extremely tight/consistent weave. |
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http://www.epicfishing.com/htmlfile/yupiks.htm
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| | THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE, by Terri Sloat |
| | Whatever moral bite there once must have been in the Yupik original about greed and selfishness has been entirely suppressed in American children's book Niceness. | | | THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE, by Terri Sloat | | | The American retellers never noticed that, of course. |
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http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/children/ch69.html
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| | Nikolai Vakhtin (European U. at St. Petersburg) - Siberian Yupik Eskimo conversation book. |
| | Vakhtin proposes to take material from his 30 years of work on the language to make booklets for those who are traveling to the U.S. and are now in need of a "Berlitz" for Yupik. | | | Ironically, the only common language now is Yupik, even though the Russians speak it haltingly or only listen to it. | | | When Yupik Eskimo was introduced into the Siberian school curriculum in the 1930s, all the children spoke it as their mother tongue and had only to learn how to write and read it. |
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http://www.ling.yale.edu/~elf/vakhtin.html
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| | Alaskool - Many Tongues, Ancient Tales |
| | Pacific Gulf Yupik (also known as Sugpiaq, Alutiiq, Suk, and popularly also known as Aleut because of Russian tradition) consists of two main dialects, Chugach and Koniag. | | | Toward the end of the 19th century, American missionary work included some written use of several Alaskan languages, while on the Russian side there was relatively little such activity. | | | Sirenikski shows evidence of having been so different from Chaplinski that it should perhaps be classed not only as a separate branch of Yupik but also as a coordinate subbranch of Eskimo, with Yupik, as shown in figure 177, or even as a third branch of Eskimo. |
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http://www.alaskool.org/language/manytongues/ManyTongues.html
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| | Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release |
| | An Eskimo-Aleut language, Yupik is spoken on St. Lawrence Island in the United States and in Siberia, part of the former Soviet Union. | | | The only language that these distant relatives share is Yupik, but Russian speakers lag behind Americans in their ability to speak it. | | | New Haven, Conn. -- Siberian Yupik, an "international" language common to one people native to two continents, is among 12 languages receiving support this year from the Endangered Language Fund (ELF) of Yale University. |
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http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/02-11-22-01.all.html
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| | Feature Article July 2004 |
| | The history of St. Lawrence Island (Sivuqaq) Yupik tattoos spans some 2,000 years and 100 miles of volcanic island rock in the north Bering Sea. | | | For example, since my first report on Yupik tattooing in Skin and Ink (July 2001), many of the gatekeepers of tattoo knowledge have died, including eight women who wore tattoos. | | | Hopefully, such a book (which I should note has just recently been completed by myself and local collaborator Chris Koonooka) will generate just enough interest in the subject of Yupik body arts to contribute to the revitalization of tattooing itself. |
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http://www.skinandink.com/old/Past_Issues/2004_Past_Issues/July2004/Feature_Article_July_2004/body_feature_article_july_2004.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Faith, Food and Family in a Yupik Whaling Community: Books |
| | Their history is a record of family and kin, and of the interrelationship between those who live in Gambell and the spiritual world on which they depend; it is a history dominated by an abiding desire for community survival. | | | She draws on extensive interviews with villagers, archival records, and scholarly studies, as well as on her own ten years of fieldwork in Gambell to demonstrate the central importance of three aspects of Yupik life: religious beliefs, devotion to a subsistence life way, and family and clan ties. | | | Relying on oral history blended with ethnography and ethnohistory, Carol Zane Jolles views the contemporary Yupik people in terms of the enduring beliefs and values that have contributed to the community's survival and adaptability. |
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http://amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0295981881
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| | NATIVE-L (May 1994): Join Yupik in Prayer for Sobriety (14 May) |
| | Yupik to tell them about your gathering and to reiterate your support for | | | their own way for three things: 1) Unity of the Yupik and all native people; | | | Please join the Yupik and gather your people together at this time to make |
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http://bioc02.uthscsa.edu/natnet/archive/nl/9405/0069.html
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| | Arctic Studies Center |
| | This Web exhibit highlights 27 Yup'ik objects from the National Museum of Natural History collection. | | | Agayuliyararput is the first exhibition of Native Alaskan Yup'ik material presented from a Yup'ik perspective. |
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http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/yupik
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| | Siberian Yupik (Bering Straits Yupik) Angyapik |
| | Yupik hunters still use traditional harpoons similar to those used in the late 1800s. | | | This type of open skin boat is still used by the Yupik people of the Bering Straits region for whaling. | | | Angyapiks are also fitted with sails, which are used when pursuing whales. |
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http://www.alaskanative.net/344.asp
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| | Yup'ik/Cup'ik |
| | Excerpt: "For the Yupiaq people, culture, knowing and living are intricately interrelated. | | | This site is from a family living in Toksook Bay, sharing information about the Yup'ik culture. | | | An ongoing project offering Alaskan Orthodox Texts in their original languages (Aleut, Alutiiq, Tlingit, Yup'ik). |
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http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/yupik.html
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| | American Ethnologist - Online Book Reviews |
| | Jolles variously states her intent to produce “a narrative of contemporary Yupik tradition, belief, and life” (p. | | | Carol Jolles’s account is based on fieldwork that began in 1987 for her dissertation and that continued with intermittent but regular residencies over the ensuing decade. | | | This is a richly descriptive portrayal of the lives of the Siberian Yupik Eskimos of the village of Gambell, on Saint Lawrence Island (SLI), Alaska. |
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http://www.aaanet.org/aes/bkreviews/result_details.cfm?bk_id=2927
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| | Alaska: Eskimo Entrepreneurs Spread Yupik Via T-shirts |
| | The company name refers to Jacobs' nickname as a child, when he split his time between his Yupik father's home in Bethel and Philadelphia, the hometown of his mother, who is black. | | | And the shirts say it all-whether you are a "big fat uppa," (a grandfather) or know a "nukalpiaq," (a man in his prime who is a good hunter and provider)-in a language that Bethel residents John Chase and Andri Jacobs hope will shed some light on their way of life. | | | Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3787/is_200402/ai_n9368932
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| | Alaska Native Languages -- Central Alaskan Yup'ik |
| | The word Yup'ik represents not only the language but also the name for the people themselves (yuk 'person' plus pik 'real'.) Central Alaskan Yup'ik is the largest of the state's Native languages, both in the size of its population and the number of speakers. | | | Early linguistic work in Central Yup'ik was done primarily by Russian Orthodox, then Jesuit Catholic and Moravian missionaries, leading to a modest tradition of literacy used in letter writing. | | | Children still grow up speaking Yup'ik as their first language in 17 of 68 Yup'ik villages, those mainly located on the lower Kuskokwim River, on Nelson Island, and along the coast between the Kuskokwim River and Nelson Island. |
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http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/langs/cy.html
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| | The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire |
| | The self-designation of the Eskimos living in northeastern Siberia is yuhyt 'people' or yupikhyt 'real people', but yupik is not widely spread. | | | At different times the people have been known by other designations. | | | At present the language varieties used by the Asiatic Eskimo are treated as three separate languages: Sireniki, Ungasiki or Chaplin, and Naukan which together form the Yupik or Western Eskimo language group. |
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http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/asiatic_eskimos.shtml
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| | Gen. Info about Yupik |
| | This page was created by Rosan on 2/26/98. | | | About 20,000 Yupik people live in Alaska today. | | | Of all of Alaska's native people, the Yupik have the largest number of individuals who still speak the language. |
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http://www.asdk12.org/schools/williamtyson/pages/Pages/Museum%20Pages/YupikGalley/Yupikinfo.html
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| | Yupik language -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Thus, Ket has been compared with the Sino-Tibetan family (which includes Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages) and with some of the languages of the Caucasus, and Yukaghir has been compared with Uralic. | | | Many attempts have been made to show that the four Paleo-Siberian families are related either to each other or to adjacent (or more distant) language families. | | | Yupik, a dialectal form meaning “real person,” includes five languages: Central Alaskan Yupik, spoken southward from Norton Sound; Pacific Yupik, commonly called Alutiiq, spoken from the Alaska Peninsula eastward to Prince William Sound; Naukanski Siberian Yupik, whose speakers were resettled southward from Cape Dezhnyov, the easternmost point of the Eurasian landmass;... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9002481
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| | Yupik / Yup'ik |
| | Famous for their sea hunting culture, the Yup'ik maintained their traditional way of life well into the 20th century. | | | This coastal area was abundant with sea and land mammals, waterfowl, and fish, and this abundance supported the development and spread of Inuit culture. | | | The name Yup'ik means "Real People." In that language, yuk means "person or "human being" and pik is added, meaning "real" or "genuine". |
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http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-yupik.htm
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| | WEBCENTER 11 Fairbanks Alaska - Inu-Yupiak Dance Group |
| | This group is mainly about the Inupiaq's and the Yupik's,” explained Berlin. | | | Whereas in Yupik there's the intro and then the first verse, then back to the chorus and then first and then back to the ending,” explained Berlin. | | | And the Inupiaq: the men are mostly standing up as the women are,” said Berlin. |
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http://www.webcenter11.com/voices/story.aspx?content_id=F5E2BE05-AA9C-4246-B0BF-10D01EDCC3CD
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| | The Art of Yupik Dancing |
| | Yup’ik dancing requires right and left hand coordination, and is structurally organized so that the right movements are always done first, creating a symmetry, or balance of movement. | | | “Yup’ik dancing is an expression of art, by communicating visually, by displaying movement for meaning, and by getting words across to the mind, enhancing the imagination of the story being told. | | | Yup’ik dance has “many” individual pieces, composed of the yuarun (chorus) which is sung eight times; the apalluk (verses) which are sung twice; and, the cauyarialnguq (displays motion to music with no singing) which is performed four times. |
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http://www.bethelarts.com/facts/artofdance.html
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| | INUIT |
| | The Inuit Circumpolar Conference defines its constitutency to include Canadian Inuit and Inuvialuit, Greenland's Kalaallit people, Alaska's Inupiaq and Yupik people, and Russian Yupik. | | | There have been Inuit settlements in Yukon, especially at Herschel Island, but there are none at present. | | | Inuit is a general term for a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples of the Arctic who descended from the Thule. |
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http://www.yotor.org/wiki/en/in/Inuit.htm
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| | An exercise in etymology |
| | The relationship of Sirenik or Sirenikski to the main families, Inuit and Yupik, is also unclear. | | | Aleut, spoken in the Aleutian islands, is more distantly related to the other Eskimo languages. |
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http://www.hum.uit.no/a/svenonius/lingua/history/iglu.html
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| | yupik email (spam-free!) and website community |
| | Disclaimer: This site has no affiliation with any legal entity or individual claiming intellectual property rights in the string "yupik". | | | In fact, the only reason this page even contains references to yupik, is because you entered yupik into your web browser. | | | It can be used for anything: the yupik surname, the yupik family, the yupik fan club, the yupik alumni group, yupik genealogy, or any other community or group about yupik. |
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http://www.yupik.pw
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| | But teachers speak Yupik and students read from Yupik textbooks, produced by the district by permission of their English-language publishers. | | | For instance, mathematics to American children is based on units of 10, where increments of 20 are used in Yupik math and numerous English words have no Yupik counterparts. | | | While most children speak some English, those enrolled in the programs don¡¯t begin formal academic training in the language until fourth grade. |
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http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art3391.txt
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| | languagehat.com: YUPIK WHISTLING. |
| | I wish they had broadcast some actual St. | | | The Yupik Eskimos and their Russian cousins have long practiced this form of communication. | | | Lawrence Yupik as well as the whistled versions, but it's only a four-minute segment, and it's a lot of fun just the way it is. Thanks for the link go to Songdog, who reminds me I've posted about whistling talk in the Canary Islands. |
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http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001953.php
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| | Beringia Notes, volume 6, number 2, November 15, 1997 |
| | The spelling of nega (sic) was taken from p. | | | This issue comletes the work by providing the English, Russian, Inupiaq, and Siberian Yupik names of birds of Central Beringia. | | | As stated in the previous issue, our interest in this work is in providing information for the proposed Beringian Heritage International Park, which has as one objective to promote the language and culture of the people living in northwest Alaska and Eastern Russia. |
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http://www.nps.gov/akso/beringia/berinotesnov97.htm
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| | The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Inuit-Aleut |
| | There are a number of dialects (some would say languages) and sub-dialects which comprise Central Yupik. | | | - Seattle : Anchorage Museum of History and Art in association with the University of Washington Press, 1996 In Yupik and English. | | | Inuit, in turn, is a branch of the Inuit-Aleut family of languages. |
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http://www.lib.umt.edu/guide/lang/inualeuh.htm
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