Yup'ik
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The Yupʼik or Yupiaq and Yupiit or Yupiat, also Central Alaskan Yupʼik, Central Yupʼik, Alaskan Yupʼik, are an Indigenous people of western and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound s
A Nunivak Island Cupʼig man in 1929
A Hooper Bay Askinarmiut boy poses wearing a circular cap (uivqurraq) and fur parka, photograph by Edward S Curtis (1930).
Qasgiq entry in the Yupʼik village of Stebbins (Tapraq), 1900
Wooden qasgiruaq (qasgiq model) with walrus ivory dolls. Ethnological Museum of Berlin.
Alaska Natives
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Alaska Natives are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska in the United States. They encompass diverse cultural and linguistic groups, including Inupiat, Aleut, Yupik peoples, and American Indians such as t
Yup'ik
…people of Chevak and Cupʼig for the Nunivak Cupʼig dialect-speaking people of Nunivak Island. The Yupiit are the most numerous of the various Alaska Native groups and speak the Central Alaskan Yupʼik language, a member of the Eskimo–Aleut family of languages. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the Yupiit population…
Alaskan Yup'ik Native dancer performing in Fairbanks (2013)
Alaska Native Languages
Yupik mother and child, Nunivak Island, c. 1929; photographed by Edward S. Curtis.
Metlakahtla brass band