Mom Mary Ann and Aunt Chinglaq get down house style at a HS basketball tournament in Scammon Bay, Alaska.

The Toksook Bay Islander dance group practices in the school lobby.

sung by pamyua on mother's day at the alaska native heritage center in anchorage, ak http://tribalfunk.wordpress.com/

My old school showin why we are the best..... Toksook Bay!!!!

How people in remote villages of native Alaska get their drinking water.

hello in yupik alaska espana satellite phone valley no names

Song in yupik......

Brendan, Paul, George, Ayav, Curtis and someone drumming and singing...

Elaine, Karen, Yaari and girls dance.

this is all whats on my mothers side.

Yupik Eskimo Dancing by K and 1st grade classes at the Yupik Immersion School. Students presenting at the Camai Dance festival, Bethel Alaska, 2007.

Our annual community Halloween festival features Eskimo dancing. Here the high school dancers perform a Yup'ik dance in costume.

Jesse and Brendon

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Every Friday our junior/senior high students have an hour to learn how to mend nets, native dance, create ice augers, carve caribou bone, etc.

The facial expressions of this young dancer are priceless. He pretends to be an animal grazing on the tundra. He hears something to send him scurrying away. (1st annual Eskimo Dance Jam)

Pamyua interprets traditional Yup'ik, Inuit, and Greenlandic chants through modern styles. Performers include Stephen and Phillip Blanchett, two brothers of Yup'ik Inuit and African American descent and the founding members of the group; Ossie Kairaiuak, a Yup'ik traditional dancer from Chefornak, Alaska; and Karina Møller, a Greenlandic Inuit singer. I was lucky enough to catch a free concert in the Unalakleet school gym during training for work.

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/drums-of-winter.html This feature-length documentary explores the traditional dance, music and spiritual world of the Yupik Eskimo people of Emmonak, a remote village at the mouth of the Yukon River on the Bering Sea coast. The Drums of Winter gives an intimate look at a way of life of which most of us have seen only glimpses. Dance was once at the heart of Yupik Eskimo spiritual and social life. It was the bridge between the ancient and the new, the living and the dead and a person's own power and the greater powers of the unseen world. Throughout the film, archival photographs and film footage accompany the words of early missionaries who brought Christianity to the area. These sequences provide a historical context for the film and give us a strong sense of the resilience of Yup'ik culture, having survived despite a century of missionary suppression. a film by Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/time-when-dreams-melt.html This film was shot in Northeastern Russia in the Providenia District of the Chukchi Autonomous Region, an area occupied by the Yupik Eskimos of Northeast Asia for millennia. The protagonist of the film is a collective character, he calls himself "Yupik-The True Man" the same way his ancestors referred to themselves. The story he tells is based on the life of the Asian Eskimo from earliest history to the present. Through his eyes we experience contemporary Eskimo life; the summer walrus hunt, life in the village and also the insistent memory of a vivid past, an Eskimo childhood spent in harmony with the land before the turning point, the tragic year, 1958. The conclusion of the protagonist is paradoxical; in spite of the great loss of human life and spirit, the Eskimos have managed to retain basic elements of traditional culture and ethnic identity. They hope to return to the land of their ancestors and recover the past strength of their people. a film by Aleksei Vakhrushev distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

Stephen Blanchett, a member of the Yup'ik (Inuit) group Pamyua recently came "home" to Kasigluk to spend a week with our students. (He is from the nearby village of Nunapitchuk.) Pamyua is an indigenous Alaskan Native band that fuses Arctic Inuit traditions with world rhythms. Here he helps our dance team practice for the Cama'i Festival. Notice what happens 12 seconds into the video!

yupik high school students showin how much talent we have

Steven Blanchett (Pamyua) returns "home" to Kasigluk to celebrate Yup'ik (Eskimo) culture in Akiuk's second "dance jam" of 2008. He harmonizes with Gary Beaver in this dance.

In April 2008, Brian brunius, Jeanne Katz, and Deepa Awal attended the Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Among many other events was the spectacular Miss Indian World competition. Here are selected clips of the competition and the winner, Nicole Alek'aq Colbert, representing the Yup'ik Eskimo of Napakiak, Alaska.

Well, I dont really take request type things, but Cat suggested I do a vid to this song. I downloaded it, and liked it enough to actually make a vid to it. I dont really like it, but I dont hate it either. Hope you like it Cat. ;] I know this song by heart now. I've had to listen to it many times. XD Its branded now. The song was long, and I was lazy, so I cheated on the end. ;] Remember to watch the credits! You dont know what could be after them. Thanks to Yupik for some of the clips. EDIT : I got lazy last night. So the first part of it is a bit better than the last half. Bah humgug!

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/in-iirgus-time.html Iirgu is an elder from the Siberian Yupik Eskimo village of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. As two grandchildren listen, Iirgu recounts events in Gambell from the time the first missionaries arrived. His story is known as an ungipamsuk or true historical narrative. With ambivalent feelings, he describes more recent changes - how whaling practices have changed, how life has become easier, but also how younger generations are losing touch with the old ways. a film by Katrina Waters distributed by Documentary Educational Resources