The words need to mean something in Yup’ik, not just be literal translations from the English. One word in English — “candidate” — ends up being a phrase in Yup’ik.
Alaska Native Arts & Culture
Tribal council proposes Iñupiaq language and culture partnership with Nome Public Schools
“We have this opportunity to save a language and time is of the essence for us to collectively act,” said Megan Alvanna-Stimpfle, vice chief of the King Island Tribal Council
Elaine Abraham, ground-breaking Tlingit elder, dead at 86
Abraham, whose Tlingit name was Chuu Shah, was the first woman and the first Native American to hold a senior position in the statewide administration of the University of Alaska system.
Teacher turnover affecting rural schools
Residents of the Yupiit school district have gone to court to force the state to spend more resources to improve the schools. They have aggressively applied for funds to instruct their children in both the Western educational mode and in their traditional language and culture.
Stolen mask mysteriously returned to artist
Sheila Dyer’s alder goat mask was taken from an exhibit at the JACC.
Celebrated Alaska storyteller charged with sex abuse of 14-year-old
Jack J. Dalton, 43, appeared in court Wednesday in Anchorage. He is accused of visiting the teenager’s home for sex in March and later admitting in a text message that he knew the boy was underage.