When people get together and decide they are going to do something, it's very powerful. There's a saying. Some people just become old, in their Yup'ik ways. Then there are others that get old and ...

One of the world’s oldest continuous communities is ‘breathing its last breath’ as some of its few remaining men die fighting for Russia more than 4,000 miles away in Ukraine. The Yupik are ...

Dr. Rick Knecht, working with local Native corporation Qanirtuuq, Inc., has helped accumulate the world’s largest collection ...

The Yupik people hunted sea mammals especially seals, walrus, and, until the latter half of the 19th century, whales. Hunting methods included harpooning from shore or boats, spearing animals in ...

Alaska’s Thaw Reveals—and Threatens—a Culture’s Artifacts. Precious items of the Yupik people, long frozen in time, are emerging as temperatures rise.

Frank Logusak, a tribal elder in Togiak, a ramshackle settlement of 842 people on Alaska's remote Bristol Bay, is a hunter and a fisherman, a Yupik native who knew the village's last shaman and ...