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Peer reviewedFienup-Riordan, Ann – American Indian Quarterly, 1994
Analyzes two Yup'ik tales depicting the cyclic relationships between humans and animals and between the living and the dead. Emphasizes the importance in the Yup'ik world view of boundaries and passages. Suggests that human actions, rules, and ceremonies create boundaries or may close or open paths between people, as well as between human/animal…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Cultural Images, Eskimos, Interpersonal Relationship
Download full textFienup-Riordan, Ann – 2001
The Calista Elders Council (CEC) is a nonprofit organization representing the 1,330 Yup'ik elders 65 and older in the Alaskan Yup'ik homeland. The CEC seeks to preserve and transmit Yup'ik values and traditions through a five-fold plan that includes youth culture camps. An old summer fishing camp on Nelson Island became the site of a youth culture…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Camping, Cultural Education
