2025年3月3日 · The Yup'ik people, whose ancestors arrived in southwestern Alaska around 800 years ago, are known for their elaborate and often-fantastical-looking masks. But this artistic tradition was nearly...

This is our collection of links to Yupik stories and folktales that can be read online. We have indexed our Native American stories section by tribe to make them easier to locate ; however, variants on the same legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other.

The Yupik (/ ˈ j uː p ɪ k /; Russian: Юпикские народы) are a group of Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East. They are related to the Inuit and Iñupiat. Yupik peoples include the following:

When John Active was a little boy growing up in Bethel he used to listen to stories around his grandmother's table. Growing up with no TV or radio, Active, now 65, would sit there and listen as his...

2020年11月20日 · The Itqiirpak or Fireball is a creature from Alaskan Yupik folklore, notably from the Scammon Bay area. It appears as a crimson fireball flickering in the West over the sea, or, more alarmingly, as a big hand from the ocean with a mouth on each fingertip and a single large mouth in the palm of the hand.

Almost all fantasy stories are based on a limited number of European, Japanese or Chinese ideas. Yet there are many more incredible stories that go ignored by writers and artists. So for today's writing prompt idea, I'd like to introduce you to Yupik ghost stories. For those of you who don't know, the Yupik people live on the far West Coast of ...

2006年10月29日 · As the long dark nights begin, the oral traditions of the Yupik Eskimos are handed down in stories told around the crackling warmth of the wood stove. In my search for information about Yupik ghost stories, my friend Joan loaned me some materials she had from a class on Yupik culture that she took back in the early 1990s.

2020年10月5日 · In the mid-1980s, Harold Napoleon, a respected Yup’ik elder, spent nine years in prison after killing his four-year-old son in what he described as an “alcoholic haze.” While incarcerated,...

There is a huge variety of Yup’ik masks but characterized by their inventive surrealism. They are usually made of wood painted with few colors and sometimes decorated with feathers. Masked varied in size from small three-inch finger masks to ten-kilo masks carried by several people.

Yup’ik People – Alaska / Siberia Raven flew over the water and wondered what he was going to eat next. It was very much like Raven to be thinking about what he was going to