Yupik peoples
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group of indigenous peoples of Alaska and the Russian Far East
Key facts
- United states alaska
- 33,889 , 22,000
- Russia chukotka
- ~1,700
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Subclass of
- Eskimo
- Part of
- Eskimo
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Population
- 35627
- Location
- Siberia
- Image
- Edward S. Curtis Collection People 008.jpg
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- Commons category
- Yupik
- topic's main category
- Category:Yupik peoples
- different from
- Central Alaskan Yup'ik people
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Encyclopedic overview
Central Alaskan Hooper Bay youth, 1930 A Nunivak Cupʼig man with raven maskette in 1929; the raven (Cupʼig language: tulukarug) is Ellam Cua or the creator deity in the Cupʼig mythology A Siberian Yupik woman holding walrus tusks, Russia House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) swears in Mary Peltola as her husband, Gene (center), looks on. Peltola is a Yupʼik from Western Alaska.
The Yupik (/ˈjuːpɪk/; Russian: Юпикские народы) are a group of Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East. They are closely related to the Inuit and Iñupiat. Yupik peoples include the following:
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