The Inupiaq and the St. Lawrence Island Yupik peoples continue to live in the northern interior and northwest coastal areas of Alaska. Inupiaq, meaning "real or genuine person," is often spelled Iñupiaq, particularly in the northern dialects of the Alaskan Inupiaq language.
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Non-Fiction Books: Iñupiat History & Culture
Alaskan Eskimos by Wendell H. Oswalt
The Eskimo about Bering Strait by Edward William Nelson
The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898 by Dorothy Jean Ray
Floating coast : an environmental history of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth
Folktales of the riverine and coastal Iñupiat by Wanni W. Anderson, Ruthie Tatqavin Sampson ; Angeline Ipiilik Newlin, Iñupiak transcriber ; Michael Qakiq Atoruk, translator
Gift of the whale : The Iñupiat bowhead hunt, a sacred tradition by Bill Hess
Give or take a century : an Eskimo chronicle by Joseph E. Senungetuk
Hunters of the polar North : the Eskimos by Wally Herbert
The Iñupiat and Arctic Alaska : an ethnography of development by Norman A. Chance
The Iñupiaq Eskimo nations of northwest Alaska by Ernest S. Burch
Iñupiaq ethnohistory : selected essays by Ernest S. Burch, Jr. ; edited by Erica Hill
Kivalina : a climate change story by Christine Shearer
The last light breaking : living among Alaska's Iñupiat Eskimos by Nick Jans
Menadelook : an Inupiat teacher's photographs of Alaska village life, 1907-1932 edited by Eileen Norbert
North Alaska chronicle : notes from the end of time : the Simon Paneak drawings by John Martin Campbell
The North Alaskan Eskimo : a study in ecology and society by Robert F. Spencer
The northern Eskimos of Alaska; a source book compiled by Laurel L. Bland
The Nunamiut Eskimos, hunters of caribou by Nicholas J. Gubser
Nuvuk, the northernmost : altered land, altered lives in Barrow, Alaska by Daniel James Inulak Lum
People of the ice and snow by the editors of Time-Life Books
Plants that we eat : nauriat nigiñaqtuat : from the traditional wisdom of the Iñupiat elders of northwest Alaska by Anore Jones
Point Hope, Alaska : life on frozen water : photographs 1959-1962 by Berit Anestad Foote
Ultimate Americans : Point Hope, Alaska, 1826-1909 by Tom Lowenstein
Whale snow : Iñupiat, climate change, and multispecies resilience in arctic Alaska by Chie Sakakibara
Biography & Memoir
Alaska's daughter : an Eskimo memoir of the early twentieth century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson
Fifty miles from tomorrow : a memoir of Alaska and the real people by William L. Iġġiaġruk Hensley
Life adventures of Ahlaak! by Era Ann Ahlaak Brower Williams
Sadie Brower Neakok, an Iñupiaq woman by Margaret B. Blackman
The whales, they give themselves : conversations with Harry Brower, Sr. edited by Karen Brewster
Magazines & Journals
Arctic Anthropology - available at Loussac Library on microfilm 1962-2007; via EbscoHost Academic Search Premier 1993-present (12 month delay)
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Additional Links & Materials
Alaska History & Cultural Studies: Iñupiaq and Saint Lawrence Island Yupik
Alaska Native Knowledge Network: Iñupiaq
Alaska Native Language Center: Iñupiaq
Alaska State Library SLED: Native and Indigenous Peoples
Arctic Slope Native Association
Language Resources
Iñupiaq language and culture video lessons
Iñupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuninit = Iñupiaq to English Dictionary compiled by Edna Ahgeak MacLean
Kan̳iqsisautit uqayusraġnikun = Kobuk Iñupiat junior dictionary developed by the staff of the National Bilingual Materials Development Center, Rural Education, University of Alaska ; compiled by Susan Sun, ... [and others] ; illustrated by J. Leslie Boffa.
North Slope Inupiaq grammar : first year by Edna Ahgeak MacLean
North Slope Iñupiaq dialogues. Supplement to North Slope Iñupiaq grammar, first year by Edna Ahgeak MacLean
