In addition to addressing food security concerns, whaling is also an important cultural tradition that has been practiced by Siberian Yupik peoples for thousands of years. Apassingok remembers going ...

The exhibit travels through the different Yup'ik seasons, including those for seal and fish hunting. It features clothing like the atkuk, parka, sewn from arctic ground squirrel pelts and caribou ...

Embodying the native Yupik belief that everything is constantly ... Modern Yupiks use motorboats to visit other villages, hunt sea mammals, and net fish. Mike Smith (right) waded into the Kanektok ...

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. "I think ...

While out hunting and fishing, the Yupik people always carry a negcik, a wooden walking stick with a bone hook affixed to the end. It becomes a claw with myriad uses: grabbing items out of kayaks ...

[Indistinguishable Siberian Yupik] No game all day. The whales should be migrating by now. ♪ ♪ [Clanking] ♪ Daniel: Chris was pretty much very natural at everything he did hunting.

Joshua Corbett for Newsweek The guttural Yupik language spoken by many in Togiak, and exclusively by some of the oldest tribal elders, has no word for "subsistence." Hunting, fishing and foraging ...

Lydia: Yeah hauling water, and hunting for my parents ... but Apatiki worked hard to incorporate Siberian Yupik into her everyday lesson plans. She remembered watching her mother with a needle ...

I hunt here, too. John ... ADN: Did you always understand the Yup'ik language at a high level? Rearden: The elders that we interview, they do have a much higher level of Yup'ik.

She’s Yup’ik and she mostly speaks Yup’ik ... I think they used to put more moist on the post.” Hunting is important here in Akiak because the food we hunt is better than the food at ...

They wanted to provide an education that more fully embraced traditional Yup'ik Native knowledge ... Students can now take part in the fall moose hunt and the spring migratory bird harvest.