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  2. Yupik peoples - Wikipedia

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    Russian explorers in the 1800s erroneously identified the Yupik people bordering the territory of the somewhat unrelated Aleut as also Aleut, or Alutiiq, in Yupik. By tradition, this term has remained in use, as well as Sugpiaq, both of which refer to the Yupik of Southcentral Alaska and Kodiak. The whole Eskaleut languages family [11] is shown ...

  3. Yup'ik - Wikipedia

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    A Nunivak Island Cupʼig man in 1929. The Yupʼik or Yupiaq (sg & pl) and Yupiit or Yupiat (pl), also Central Alaskan Yupʼik, Central Yupʼik, Alaskan Yupʼik (own name Yupʼik sg Yupiik dual Yupiit pl; Russian: Юпики центральной Аляски), are an Indigenous people of western and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards along the coast of the ...

  4. Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center - Wikipedia

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    The Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center (YPCC), also known as Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center and Museum, formerly known as the Yup'ik Museum, Library, and Multipurpose Cultural Center (or Facility), is a non-profit cultural center of the Yup'ik (and sometimes Alaskan Athabaskan of the region) culture centrally located in Bethel, Alaska near the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Kuskokwim ...

  5. Alaska Natives - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) was created in 1915. [30] Also in 1915, the Alaska Territorial legislature passed a law allowing Alaskan Natives the right to vote – but on the condition that they give up their cultural customs and traditions. [31] The Indian Citizenship Act, passed in 1924, gave all Native Americans United States ...

  6. Denaʼina - Wikipedia

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    Village of Aniak (Yupik name: “the place where it comes out”, which refers to the mouth of the Aniak River) (Yupik and Dena’ina peoples) Native Village of Chuathbaluk (Yupik name Curapalek meaning “the hills where the big blueberries grow”) (Yupik and Dena’ina peoples) Native Village of Georgetown (Yupik and Dena’ina peoples)

  7. Water hookups come to Alaska Yup'ik village, and residents ...

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    Many Alaska villages don't have running water and flushing toilets. Instead of using a bathroom, people retire to a room in a house, pull a curtain and use a honey bucket — typically a 5-gallon ...

  8. Kuspuk - Wikipedia

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    Alaska Native dancer performing in a kuspuk Man wearing a contemporary kuspuk Senator Lisa Murkowski wearing a kuspuk. A kuspuk (/ ˈ ɡ ʌ s. p ʌ k /) (Central Yupik: qaspeq; [1] [2] Inupiaq: atikłuk [3] [4]) is a hooded overshirt with a large front pocket commonly worn among Alaska Natives. [5]

  9. Siberian Yupik - Wikipedia

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    Frame of traditional Yupik skin boat above the west beach of Gambell, Alaska. Mask in Musée du Quai Branly. Siberian Yupiks, or Yuits (Russian: Юиты), are a Yupik people who reside along the coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in the far northeast of the Russian Federation and on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.