Inupiaq

• “The Inupiaq are an Eskimo group that still relies on a traditional, subsistence lifestyle”

  CNN.com

• “By contrast, a Portuguese-speaking whaler in search of provisions among Inupiaq Eskimos on the northern coast of what is now Alaska was more likely, one hundred twenty years ago, to use a hodgepodge lingua franca employing Inupiaq and some Portuguese words, but also English and even Hawaiian—tongues of those who had previous contact with speakers of Inupiaq.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “A Juneau resident since 1999, Jans also lived for many years in Ambler, the arctic Inupiaq village, where he taught the village schoolchildren.”

  USA TODAY's Board of Contributors

• “Ticket, a 50-year-old Inupiaq who served with the National Guard in Iraq and has raised nine kids, said the family is used to carting water and waste.”

  The Washington Post: For many with a stake in Alaska native corporations, promise of a better life remains unfulfilled

• “Never, despite coming close several times, has an Inupiaq from Western Alaska won the race, either.”

  The Huffington Post: AlaskaDispatch.com: John Baker Walks Dogs Under Burled Arch in Nome to Win Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

• “There have been other Alaska Native champs but never an Inupiaq.”

  The Huffington Post: AlaskaDispatch.com: John Baker Walks Dogs Under Burled Arch in Nome to Win Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

• “Ms. Blomberg's consultations with tribal experts included posing this question to Susi Silook, a Yup'ik/Inupiaq sculptor from Alaska: "Why would someone go to all the trouble to decorate a utilitarian tool like a harpoon head?”

  The Wall Street Journal: Shows That Defy Stereotypes

• “The beguiling answer found its way onto a label for Denver's finely engraved ancient Inupiaq and Yup'ik ivory hunting tools: "Highly skilled artists created these elegant tools to please the spirits of the animals being hunted.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Shows That Defy Stereotypes

• “Shannon Gramse writes that Ice Floe, the international magazine which publishes poetry from northern latitudes - not only in English but also, with facing English translations, in numerous other languages including Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Inupiaq and many more - is about to relaunch under the auspices of the University of Alaska Press.”

  Archive 2010-03-01

• “The site was settled by Kenny's ancestors over 100 years ago as Olgoonik, an Inupiaq name for "where the land slopes to the sea.”

  Riki Ott: The Human Cost of Bush's Arctic Policy

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