Yup’ik people

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The Yup’ik people are an Indigenous group of Alaska Native Inuit known for their rich subsistence traditions, complex ceremonial life, and enduring communities along the western and southwestern coasts of Alaska.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Alaska Native people
Indigenous people
Inuit people
ethnic group
alternativeName Central Alaskan Yup’ik
Yupik
artForm basketry
dance
drum making
ivory carving
mask making
ceremonialPractice Bladder Festival
Messenger Feast (Kivgiq)
potlatch-like gift exchanges
continent North America
country United States of America
culturalArea Arctic
linked to: Arctic region

Subarctic
culturalRevitalization language immersion programs
traditional dance festivals
education bilingual education programs in Yup’ik and English
ethnonym Yup’ik
linked to: Yupik
governedBy tribal councils
language Central Alaskan Yup’ik language
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut languages
legalStatus federally recognized tribes in the United States
nameMeaning “real people”
nativeName Yup’it
linked to: Yupiget
notableCommunity Bethel, Alaska
Hooper Bay, Alaska
Toksook Bay, Alaska
populationRegion Bristol Bay communities
Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta communities
primaryRegion southwestern Alaska
western Alaska
relatedEthnicGroup Cup’ik people
linked to: Cupʼik people

Inupiat
linked to: Inuit

Siberian Yupik
religion Christianity
traditional Yup’ik spirituality
socialOrganization bilateral kinship
seasonal communal living
subsistencePractice fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
marine mammal hunting
traditionalFood caribou
salmon
seal
walrus
traditionalHousing ena (women’s house)
qasgiq (men’s communal house)
semi-subterranean sod houses
traditionalMusic drum dance songs
traditionalTerritory Bering Sea coast of Alaska
Bristol Bay region
linked to: Bristol Bay

Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta

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Bristol Bay hasIndigenousGroup Yup’ik people
Norton Sound isTraditionalTerritoryOf Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Big Diomede Island historicalInhabitants Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Chukchi Peninsula indigenousPeople Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Chukchi people relatedEthnicGroup Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Cup’ig dialect associatedWithPeople Yupik peoples of western Alaska
linked to: Yup’ik people
Mekoryuk hasIndigenousCulture Yupik culture
linked to: Yup’ik people
Cup’ig people ethnographicGroupOf Yupik peoples
linked to: Yup’ik people
Bethel, Alaska majorEthnicGroup Yupʼik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Togiak, Alaska ethnicGroup Yup'ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Bethel Census Area hasSignificantEthnicGroup Yupʼik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Hooper Bay, Alaska hasMajorEthnicGroup Yup'ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Northern Alaska inhabitedBy Yupik people
subject linked to: northern Alaska
linked to: Yup’ik people
Hooper Bay–Chevak dialect spokenBy Yup'ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Kusilvak Census Area predominantEthnicGroup Yupʼik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Chevak Yup’ik ethnicGroupOf Chevak Yup’ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Bristol Bay Borough hasIndigenousGroup Yup'ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area ethnicGroup Yupik peoples
linked to: Yup’ik people
Red Devil, Alaska hasIndigenousPresence Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Stony River, Alaska populationMajority Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Napaskiak, Alaska indigenousPeople Yup'ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Lower Kalskag, Alaska indigenousPeople Yup'ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Russian Orthodox missions targetPopulation Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Alaska Peninsula Sugpiaq relatedEthnicGroup Yupik peoples
linked to: Yup’ik people
Calista Corporation hasShareholders Yup’ik people
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve culturalSignificanceFor Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Northwest Coast of Alaska inhabitedBy Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Yupiit ethnonym Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Yupiit subgroupOf Yupik peoples
linked to: Yup’ik people
Russian Orthodox mission in Alaska targetedPopulation Yupik peoples
linked to: Yup’ik people
Pilot Station, Alaska ethnicGroup Yup'ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
Manokotak, Alaska predominantIndigenousGroup Yup'ik people
linked to: Yup’ik people