Yupik peoples

Yupik
Total population
~35,567
Regions with significant populations
United States
Alaska
33,889
22,000[1]
Russia
Chukotka
~1,700
Languages
English (Alaska) • Russian (in Siberia) • Yupik languages
Religion
Christianity (mostly Eastern Orthodox and Moravian), Shamanism, Atheism
Related ethnic groups
Aleut, Chukchi, Inuit, Iñupiat, Sirenik
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 (/ˈjpɪk/; 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:

  1. ^ "The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2010" (PDF). Census.gov. US Census Bureau. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  2. ^ Achirgina-Arsiak, Tatiana. "Northeastern Siberian: Yupik (Asiatic Eskimo)." Alaska Native Collections. 1996. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  3. ^ Vakhtin, Nikolai (1998). "Endangered Languages in Northeast Siberia: Siberian Yupik and other Languages of Chukotka" (PDF). Siberian Studies: 162.
  4. ^ Video about Yupik communities on St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea