| Speakers of Yupik inhabit a region consisting of southwestern Alaska and Siberia. |
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| The treeless island's residents are Yupik Eskimos with cousins in the nearby Chukotka region in Russia. |
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| Among them are Yupik and Inupiat Eskimos from the west and north, people with strong whale-hunting traditions. |
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| In school, about a third of their children learn Central Yupik as their first language. |
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| Many Yupik, whose ancestors were marine hunters, now work in schools and stores, for the government and in commercial fishing. |
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| For example, eastern Canadian Inuit have difficulty understanding Siberian Yupik, who can easily converse with Alaskan Inupiat. |
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| The Chukchi and Yupik were separated for many years by the Cold War, but since 1988 have renewed contact. |
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| A group of Yupik masks, the only ones known to have survived the destruction wrought by the Russian Orthodox, form the heart of this collection. |
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| It's a generic term for one of the tribes of Native Americans who live in the far north of the continent, but Inuits, like their Yupik neighbours, don't like the term. |
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| Alaskan Yupik live in small coastal villages along the Bering Sea and the lower Yukon and Kuskokwin rivers. |
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| About ten thousand to four thousand years ago, the predecessors of the Aleut, Alutiiq, Inupiat, Yup'ik, and St. Lawrence Island Yupik arrived. |
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| The Aleuts are a distinct group related to the Inuit and Yupik by language. |
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| Today, Arctic peoples from different regions speak their own dialects of Inuktitut, Yupik and Inupiaq languages. |
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| Eskimo is a blanket term for Inuit and Yupik, the two mutually unintelligible main divisions of the Eskimo languages. |
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| However, the indigenous peoples of Alaska include the Yupik and the Aleuts, both of whom are distinct from the Inuit. |
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| Although they too have had to go through many extreme lifestyle changes, Yupik are now the most dominant Aboriginal group in Alaska. |
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| Other peoples to use this written system were the Alaskan Yupik and Inupiat, and the Siberian Yupik. |
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| The Yupik live along the eastern shore of the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia and on Saint Lawrence Island in Alaska. |
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| The Chukchi lived close to the Siberian Yupik and have adopted their techniques for fishing and hunting large sea mammals. |
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| However, some Yupik live much as their ancestors did, by hunting walrus, moose and caribou, although usually with the help of modern technology. |
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| The Yupik do not speak an Inuit language nor consider themselves to be Inuit. |
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| Half of Nome residents and almost all village residents are Alaskan Natives of Inupiat or Yupik ancestry. |
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| In Alaska, where groups like the Inuit, Yupik, and Aleut do not identify as Indian, people often use the term Native. |
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| The Eskimo dialects are Inupiaq, Yupik, Siberian Yupik, Jupik, Cupik, and Central Yupik. |
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| Public station KYUK in Bethel, Alaska, broadcasts a small amount of programming in Yupik, the language of the local Inuits. |
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| The Company is owned by more than 7,300 Alaska Native shareholders of Athabascan and Southeast Indian, Inupiat, Yupik, Alutiiq and Aleut descent. |
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| The footwear, clothing, hunting gear, and women's tools shown in this exhibition are evidence of the ingenuity of the Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Alutiiq and others, and their ability to survive and prosper in the Arctic north. |
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| During the Soviet period, the communist government weakened the Yupik way of life, closed down their villages, and forced them to assimilate with newcomers from the south. |
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| The inuksuk emblem was adopted by Speed Skating Canada for its meaningful symbolism as a guiding beacon in the land of ice and snow used by the Inuit, Inupiat, Kalaallit, Yupik and other peoples of the Arctic. |
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| Inuit, Yupik, Aleut, and American Indian creation myths tell of a variety of origins of their respective peoples. |
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| Before European colonization, Beringia was inhabited by the Yupik peoples on both sides of the straits. |
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| This lamp was the most important article of furniture for the Inuit, Yupik and other Eskimo peoples. |
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| Societies with the Eskimo kinship system, like the Inuit, Yupik, and most Western societies, are typically bilateral. |
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| This professional dance group from Anadyr, Russia, performs traditional Chukchi and Yupik dances combined with modern music and choreography. |
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| Polar bears have long provided important raw materials for Arctic peoples, including the Inuit, Yupik, Chukchi, Nenets, Russian Pomors and others. |
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| Other Circumpolar North indigenous peoples include the Buryat, Chukchi, Evenks, Inupiat, Khanty, Koryaks, Nenets, Sami, Yukaghir, Gwich'in, and Yupik. |
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| Alaska Bank also offered bilingual services through a network of employees throughout the bank who spoke Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Yupik. |
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| In the tales and beliefs of the Siberian Yupik people, killer whales are said to appear as wolves in winter, and wolves as killer whales in summer. |
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| The Yupik also refer to the bear as nanuuk in Siberian Yupik. |
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