Books about the Yup'ik and Cup'ik Peoples

Ciulirnerunak Yuuyaqunak= Do not live without an elder : the subsistence way of life in southwest Alaska

Author: translated and transcribed by Alice Rearden ; edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9781602232976

Abstract: "In October of 2010, six men who were serving on the board of the Calista Elders Council (CEC) gathered in Anchorage with CEC staff to spend three days speaking about the subsistence way of life. The men shared stories of their early years growing up on the land and harvesting through the seasons, and the dangers they encountered there. The gathering was striking for its regional breadth, as elders came from the Bering Sea coast as well as the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. And while their accounts had some commonalities, they also served to demonstrate the wide range of different approaches to subsistence in different regions. This book gathers the men's stories for the current generation and those to come. Taken together, they become more than simply oral histories--rather, they testify to the importance of transmitting memories and culture and of preserving knowledge of vanishing ways of life"-- Provided by publisher.

Anguyiim nalliini = Time of warring : the history of bow-and-arrow warfare in Southwest Alaska

Author: transcriptions and translations by Alice Rearden with Marie Meade and [7 others] ; edited with an introduction by Ann Fienup-Riordan
Year: 2016
ISBN: 9781602232914

Stories find you, places know : Yup'ik narratives of a sentient world

Author: Holly Cusack-McVeigh
Year: 2017
ISBN: 9781607815822

Yupik transitions : change and survival at Bering Strait, 1900-1960

Author: Igor Krupnik and Michael Chlenov
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781602232167

Qanemcit amllertut = many stories to tell : traditional tales and narratives from southwest Alaska

Author: transcribed and translated by Alice Rearden with Marie Meade ; edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan
Year: 2017
ISBN: 9781602233362

Yupiit yuraryarait : Yup'ik ways of dancing

Author: James H. Barker and Ann Fienup-Riordan with Theresa Arevgaq John ; translations by Marie Meade, David Chanar, and Alice Rearden
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9781602230828

Abstract: Illustrates the dance and music of the indigenous Alaskan Yup'ik people and provides information about how this interpretive art form is interconnected to the history of the land and the people. Examines the meaning of the complex and symbolic rituals and includes photographs, a glossary, an index, and a CD-ROM.

A Yupiaq worldview : a pathway to ecology and spirit

Author: Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Year: 2006
ISBN: 9781577663843

Faith, food, and family in a Yupik whaling community

Author: Carol Zane Jolles ; with the assistance of Elinor Mikaghaq Oozeva
Year: 2002
ISBN: 9780295981895

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