In the 1960s, Nelson spent about a year living with the Inupiaq in the tiny village of Wainwright. |
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My background is Inupiaq Eskimo, which is the northern most tribe of Inuits in Alaska. |
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The word for poetry in Inupiaq is the same as the word to breathe, and both derive from anerca, the soul. |
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The Inupiaq dwell in the icy lands on the North Slope of Alaska near present-day Barrow. |
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It's where they gather for Sunday school, Sunday morning and evening worship, and a Wednesday night praise service led by the elders in the Inupiaq language. |
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Currently Cherokee, Hawaiian, Inuktitut, Inupiaq, Kalaallisut, and Navajo are supported. |
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The station, built to detect incoming Soviet, then Russian, missiles and aircraft, had brought great change to the people of Kali, or in Inupiaq, the Kalimiut. |
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These attached sections of ice are called iiguaq in Inupiaq. |
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The Eskimo dialects are Inupiaq, Yupik, Siberian Yupik, Jupik, Cupik, and Central Yupik. |
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What's not quite so comfortably in Parnell's camp are the Inupiaq and Athabaskan tribes in the path of his destruction. |
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The decision to list our oogruk as endangered species will have a determent to our way of life as Inupiaq. |
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Skin boats, umiaks in particular, have always been important for the Inupiaq people. |
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They think in terms of Eskimo without realizing the diversity of Yup'ik and Inupiaq cultures or that there's a very large and diverse Athabascan culture in Interior Alaska. |
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