Yupik Essays

The Eskimo word igloo means house, and to the Native`s Canadian Eastern Arctic the word igloo is the snow house.An igloo provides the Eskimo with shelter for the long bitter cold winter.It is easy to build when you know to build.The igloo is compacted and strong.The igloo gains strength by the way it is desighned.After the first row of blocks you cut one block slanted. To make it a slop then you start your second row.The blocks build up into a continuous spiral.There must be good hard snow in your

Our Universe The exhibit I chose was the Yupik. On the Yupik universe table in our universe it shows a design of a house called the Qasgiq. In the inside of the Qasgiq it had a window and a smoke hole, fire place , two sleeping bench and a summer passageway. I remember asking myself how does one sleep on a sleep bench; it didn 't look like they had much of a bed . It is used only in winters. The qasgiq or (men 's house)has symbolic value for the Yupik because it is the foundation of everything

Yuuyaraq: The Way of Human Being (1994) describes the social issue of alcoholism as crippling a whole society. Napoleon hopes to shed light on the cultural breakdown that contributed to this phenomenon. Describing his personal battle with alcoholism, along with how it has changed the course of his life. Through Napoleon’s account of the Yup-ik history, we will compare the difference in science, religion and apply The Purnell Model for Cultural Competence to understand the cultural significance of

refer to sand. One more argument made with common knowledge is that there is more than one English word for snow; blizzard, slush, sleet, and snow, to name a few. Pullum concludes his paper by citing Woodbury as his source that the Central Alaskan Yupik Eskimo language contains only about a dozen terms for

To begin with, I choose this indigenous tribe because I don’t know nothing about Alaska and I have curiosity about the people who lived there and may be the people who still live there. Alaska is very close to the arctic glacier ocean, so its climate is one of the coldest in the world, its temperatures do not exceed 0 degrees Celsius in winter. This is one of the great difficulties that we find today in order to live there, despite this, Alaska has a population of around 20,000 people. Nowadays we

She is the main protagonist. Like any ordinary girls she grew up listening to stories. She is not given a particular name in the story. She can be any Indian woman of the Yupik tribes. But she is portrayed as a strong and independent woman. She goes all the way to bring the store man down to destruction – the destruction that cost him with his life, and who is in fact the cause to the dead of her parents. When the authority

These were the most numerous among the Native when the first contact with the Europeans was made. Grouping divisions are based on language differences, as well as in survival methods and technological skills. The Inupiat and the Yupik, known as the real people, continue to hunt and gather in communities. They subsist on both sea and land resources. Even to this day their lives continue to evolve around the polar bear, caribou, fish, seal, whale, and walrus. The vast Alaskan land