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- proper noun A language of the
Eskimo-Aleut family.
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Examples
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From an indigenous perspective, Alaskan Yup'ik writer Harold Napoleon concurs: Many villages have expressed interest in reviving...
K. David Harrison: Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge K. David Harrison 2011
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This is Nicole Alek'aq Colbert, a Black and Yup'ik Alaskan Native woman who was crowned Miss Indian World 2008. tags: black indians, femme, ndns
ok so now I'm getting peeved. bossymarmalade 2009
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The beguiling answer found its way onto a label for Denver's finely engraved ancient Inupiaq and Yup'ik ivory hunting tools: "Highly skilled artists created these elegant tools to please the spirits of the animals being hunted."
Shows That Defy Stereotypes Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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Mr. Ellis says that modern art collectors, rather than Native-American-art collectors, buy many Yup'ik works because of their relevance to 20th-century art.
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But when the museum got into financial trouble in the 1940s, it sold five of its Yup'ik masks.
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Ms. Blomberg's consultations with tribal experts included posing this question to Susi Silook, a Yup'ik/Inupiaq sculptor from Alaska: "Why would someone go to all the trouble to decorate a utilitarian tool like a harpoon head?"
Shows That Defy Stereotypes Lee Rosenbaum 2011
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From an indigenous perspective, Alaskan Yup'ik writer Harold Napoleon concurs: Many villages have expressed interest in reviving...
K. David Harrison: Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge K. David Harrison 2011
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More than 100 years ago, a Yup'ik Eskimo used wood, pigment, sinew, feathers and fiber to make a mask celebrating the winds.
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I myself have many 1/8th Alaskan Native American friends (like her hubby Todd whose mother is a whole one-quarter Yup'ik).
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I myself have many 1/8th Alaskan Native American friends (like her hubby Todd whose mother is a whole one-quarter Yup'ik).
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