Nunivak Cup’ig people

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The Nunivak Cup’ig people are an Alaska Native Yupik group indigenous to Nunivak Island, known for their distinct Cup’ig language and rich maritime hunting and subsistence traditions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nunivak Cup’ig people canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Alaska Native people ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ
country United States ⓘ
culturalPractice carving ⓘ
drum dancing ⓘ
mask making ⓘ
skin sewing ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ
culturalRegion Arctic ⓘ
Subarctic ⓘ
endonymLanguageName Cup’ig ⓘ
governedWithin Bethel Census Area ⓘ
indigenousTo Nunivak Island ⓘ
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut languages ⓘ
Yupik languages ⓘ
languageStatus endangered language community ⓘ
locatedIn Alaska ⓘ
Bering Sea ⓘ
United States ⓘ
primarySettlement Mekoryuk ⓘ
region Western Alaska ⓘ
linked to: northwestern Alaska
relatedGroup Central Yup’ik people ⓘ
linked to: Yup’ik people

Siberian Yupik people ⓘ
religion Christianity ⓘ
traditional Yupik beliefs ⓘ
selfDesignation Cup’ig ⓘ
state Alaska ⓘ
subgroupOf Central Alaskan Yup’ik people ⓘ
linked to: Yup’ik people

Yupik people ⓘ
linked to: Yup’ik people
traditionalArtForm dance masks ⓘ
ivory carving ⓘ
wood carving ⓘ
traditionalClothingMaterial caribou skin ⓘ
seal skin ⓘ
traditionalEconomy subsistence-based economy ⓘ
traditionalHousing semi-subterranean houses ⓘ
sod houses ⓘ
traditionalLanguage Cup’ig language ⓘ
linked to: Cup’ik language
traditionalSubsistence bird hunting ⓘ
caribou hunting ⓘ
fishing ⓘ
gathering wild plants ⓘ
marine mammal hunting ⓘ
seal hunting ⓘ
walrus hunting ⓘ
whale hunting ⓘ
uses kayaks ⓘ
umiaks ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mekoryuk → ethnicMajority → Nunivak Cup’ig people ⓘ
Mekoryuk → hasIndigenousGroup → Nunivak Cup’ig people ⓘ
Mekoryuk → primaryCommunityOf → Nunivak Cup’ig people ⓘ