Yup'ik

  • Byron Nicholai

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Byron Nicholai is a Yup’ik artist from Alaska. His love for music led him to create, “I Sing. You Dance.”, a Facebook page where he shares songs and drum dancing videos. These songs often contain messages from elders. He released an album that debuted at #2 on the Worldwide genre on iTunes.… Read more

    uploaded date: 30-11-2022

  • What's Your Wild - Alaska Federation of Native Convention 2019 Filming exercise

    uploaded by: ArcticWCS

    channel: ArcticWCS

     In October 2019, Youth Videographer Willow Torres filmed interviews at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention, and Youth Videographer Hailey Moses edited them together to make this short film centered around the question, "What's Your Wild?" They wanted to see how people are connected to thier landscapes and animals around them, and got some interesting responses!

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    uploaded date: 15-11-2019

  • Maqi

    uploaded by: frankofthenorth

    channel: frankofthenorth

     Many cultures have a steambath, and for Native people in the Southwestern Alaska region, the Yup'ik or Yupiit, we call it the maqi- which of course is done in a maqiiwiik, a place to maqi. 

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    uploaded date: 09-03-2013