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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  Inupiaq [Inupiat] - Alaska Native Cultural Profile
The Inupiaq language consists of Inuit-Inupiaq families of polysynthetic languages spoken from Siberia [Yup'ik] to Greenland [Inupiaq].
Further, many Inupiaqs have moved to major urban centers for a college education, warmer climate (arthritis concerns), health care needs, lower cost of living, due to Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971 or the flow of oil moneys into the state.
Inupiaq values reciprocity, trading partnerships, all are based on what have become known today as subsistence hunting.
www.nnlm.gov /pnr/ethnomed/inupiaq.html   (2140 words)

  
 UC Faculty Members Break New Ground While Treading Gently on the Alaskan Tundra
University of Cincinnati assistant professor Wendy Eisner and a team of researchers are studying the Inupiaq people of Alaska as part of a research project on global warming.
Wendy Eisner (geography and women’s studies), Chris Cuomo (philosophy and women’s studies) and Ken Hinkel (geography) were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study climate and environment on Alaska’s North Slope.
The quality of the snow is a question of livelihood for the Inupiaq — a factor in their very existence.
www.uc.edu /news/NR.asp?id=3081   (1794 words)

  
 Iñupiaq People - Arctic People & Cultures - All Things Arctic
Though initially in opposition to Inupiaq whaling rights, the International Whaling Commisssion (IWC) has allowed continued whaling in the Bering Sea region though the number of whales to be taken by each community is strictly limited.
With the increasing contact between Alaska, Canada and Greenland, the "Inupiq" and "Inupiaq" languages are often used interchangeably.
The Inupiaq are one of the few indigenous people presently continuing to hunt whales.
www.allthingsarctic.com /people/inupiaq.aspx   (474 words)

  
 Alaska Native Languages -- Inupiaq
North Alaskan Inupiaq comprises the North Slope dialect spoken along the Arctic Coast from Barter Island to Kivalina, and the Malimiut dialect found primarily around Kotzebue Sound and the Kobuk River.
Seward Peninsula Inupiaq comprises the Qawiaraq dialect found principally in Teller and in the southern Seward Peninsula and Norton Sound area, and the Bering Strait dialect spoken in the villages surrounding Bering Strait and on the Diomede Islands.
It can refer to a person of this group ("He is an Inupiaq") and can also be used as an adjective ("She is an Inupiaq woman").
www.uaf.edu /anlc/langs/i.html   (325 words)

  
 2001-2002 UAF Catalog: Eskimo
Introduction to Inupiaq, the language of Unalakleet, Seward Peninsula, Kotzebue Sound, and North Slope.
Introductory course for students who wish to acquire the ability to speak Inupiaq, the language of Norton Sound, the Seward Peninsula, Kotzebue Sound, the North Slope, and the arctic portions of Canada and Greenland.
An examination of the development of written Inupiaq uses to entertain, inform, persuade, transcribe oral narratives and take notes on such occasions as city council meetings.
www.uaf.edu /catalog/catalog_01-02/courses/esk.html   (772 words)

  
 Canku Ota - April 8, 2000 - Gift of the Whale
In that whale road, the Open Lead, the whales would come to the surface and wait there to be struck by the harpoons of the Inupiaq.
They would continue to do so every year as long as the Inupiaq showed respect to the Bowhead, as long as the Inupiaq took only what they needed in order to survive.
During the hunt, the hunter shows respect for the whale by asking it to forgive him for causing it pain and asking it to understand that the whale is needed so that the Inupiaq can live.
www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co04082000/CO_04082000_Giftwhale.htm   (896 words)

  
 Joanne Swanson, Inupiaq Eskimo - Biography
." were just two thoughts this Inupiaq Eskimo artist pondered as a child, teenager and young adult.
As a young child she knew she would be an artist.
The village population was approximately one hundred Inupiaq Eskimo.
www.artnatam.com /swanson/bio.html   (416 words)

  
 NativeWeb Home
Alaska's Native people include Inupiaq, Yup'ik, and Cup'ik Eskimos, the Aleut, and Tlingit and Athabaskan Indians.
Living in Both Worlds: Inupiaq Women and Urban Life, is adapted from a 'Commentary' article by Nancy Fogel-Chance in the journal Arctic, vol 47.
Multi-village Inupiaq (Eskimo) Dance Troupe, villages represented are Barrow, King Island, Nome, Point Hope, Teller.
www.nativeweb.org /resources.php?name=Inupiaq&type=1&nation=173   (189 words)

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