For many Alaska Native communities, subsistence hunting and fishing is a way of life. For the Apassingok family, it accounts for more than 80 percent of their food. If Daniel Apassingok and his sons, ...

Paul John and more than a dozen other Yup'ik people traveled thousands of miles for the opening of the exhibit, "Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and ...

Williams, who is Yup'ik but lives in Sitka, wants people to know he doesn't hunt the animals simply for sport. The practice is an extension of his Native roots and lifestyle, he says.

One With the Whale. Season 25 Episode 15 | 1h 18m 4s Video has Audio Description, Closed Captions | AD CC. Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy ...

Hunting, fishing and foraging are not quaint traditions; they are the anchors of Yupik life and culture—of yuuyaraq, which roughly means "the way of being a human." ...

Precious items of the Yupik people, long frozen in time, ... who lived here when they weren’t out hunting, fishing, and gathering plants. No one, it seems, was spared.

Lydia’s husband, Jerome Apatiki, has spent decades hunting walrus during the ice breakup. As a young captain, he used an umiak to subsist on the open water miles away from St. Lawrence Island.

Yup’ik elder talks about her childhood with her grandson, and gives advice ... Hunting is important here in Akiak because the food we hunt is better than the food at the store, ...

Onboard Obsession: Exploring the Siberian Yupik Village of Savoonga on a Hurtigruten Cruise Through Alaska ... and we are allowed to hunt a small number each year,” our guide explained.