Yupik peoples
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The Yupik are a group of Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East. They are closely related to the Inuit and Iñupiat. Yupik peoples i
Central Alaskan Hooper Bay youth, 1930
A Nunivak Cupʼig man with raven maskette in 1929; the raven (Cupʼig language: tulukarug) is Ellam Cua or the creator deity in the Cupʼig mythology
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) swears in Mary Peltola as her husband, Gene (center), looks on. Peltola is a Yupʼik from Western Alaska.
Yupʼik mask, Sitka, Alaska, collection of the Alaska State Museum
Mary Peltola
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Mary Sattler Peltola is an American politician and former tribal judge. She served as the U.S. representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district from 2022 to 2025. A member of the Democrati
Yupik peoples
…language), ISO 639:ems Siberian Central Siberian Yupik language (Yuit), ISO 639:ess Naukan Yupik language, ISO 639:ynk Sirenik language, ISO 639:ysr Mary Peltola (born 1973), former U.S. representative of Alaska's at-large congressional district, serving from September 2022 to January 2025; she was formerly a…
Official portrait, 2022
Peltola during the 117th Congress
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swears in Peltola as her husband, Gene "Buzzy" Peltola, and family observe, September 2022
Peltola in a Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, December 2023