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Definitions

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  • proper noun A language of the Eskimo-Aleut family.

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Examples

  • From an indigenous perspective, Alaskan Yup'ik writer Harold Napoleon concurs: Many villages have expressed interest in reviving...

    K. David Harrison: Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge K. David Harrison 2011

  • This is Nicole Alek'aq Colbert, a Black and Yup'ik Alaskan Native woman who was crowned Miss Indian World 2008. tags: black indians, femme, ndns

    ok so now I'm getting peeved. bossymarmalade 2009

  • 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."

    Shows That Defy Stereotypes Lee Rosenbaum 2011

  • Mr. Ellis says that modern art collectors, rather than Native-American-art collectors, buy many Yup'ik works because of their relevance to 20th-century art.

    A Mask That Inspired Masters 2011

  • But when the museum got into financial trouble in the 1940s, it sold five of its Yup'ik masks.

    A Mask That Inspired Masters 2011

  • 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?"

    Shows That Defy Stereotypes Lee Rosenbaum 2011

  • From an indigenous perspective, Alaskan Yup'ik writer Harold Napoleon concurs: Many villages have expressed interest in reviving...

    K. David Harrison: Emerging Languages, Emergent Knowledge K. David Harrison 2011

  • More than 100 years ago, a Yup'ik Eskimo used wood, pigment, sinew, feathers and fiber to make a mask celebrating the winds.

    A Mask That Inspired Masters 2011

  • I myself have many 1/8th Alaskan Native American friends (like her hubby Todd whose mother is a whole one-quarter Yup'ik).

    Warren Holstein: Fox's Barracuda Jumps the Shark 2010

  • I myself have many 1/8th Alaskan Native American friends (like her hubby Todd whose mother is a whole one-quarter Yup'ik).

    Warren Holstein: Fox's Barracuda Jumps the Shark 2010

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