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Paul John was born in the village of Old Cevv'arneq, also known as Chefornak, Alaska. [2] He was raised in a sod house in an Alaskan village on the Bering Sea. [1] John, who spoke very little English and conversed in fluent Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, recalled living with seals as a child to promote respect for animals. [1]
Yup'ik tribes constantly raided each other and destroyed villages, These wars ultimately ended in the 1830s and 1840s with the establishment of Russian colonialism. [ 11 ] Before a Russian colonial presence emerged in the area, the Aleut and Yupik spent most of their time sea-hunting animals such as seals, walruses, and sea lions.
Yupʼik (plural Yupiit) comes from the Yupik word yuk meaning "person" plus the post-base -pik meaning "real" or "genuine". Thus, it literally means "real people." [10] The ethnographic literature sometimes refers to the Yupʼik people or their language as Yuk or Yuit.
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Yup'ik is typically considered to have five dialects: Norton Sound, General Central Yup'ik, Nunivak, Hooper Bay-Chevak, and the extinct Egegik dialect. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] All extant dialects of the language are mutually intelligible , albeit with phonological and lexical differences that sometimes cause difficulty in cross-dialectal comprehension.
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]
(Yup, philia sounds a bit like Philadelphia, a.k.a., the city of brotherly love, for a reason, Beaulieu notes.) The word dates back to the seventh or eighth century B.C.E. and is a “generic term ...
Storm-battered residents in the western Alaska village of Napakiak were preparing for the third storm in a week Tuesday, days after a minister had to use a front loader to free people from flooded ...