When World War II ended and the reserve force ceased operations in 1947, the U.S. approached the Indigenous Yupik people of ...

Yup'ik masks vary dramatically in size and shape, anthropologist Dorothy Jean Ray wrote in her 1967 book "Eskimo Masks: Art and Ceremony," with some as small as 6 inches (15 centimeters ...

Newtok Ayaprun School, I miss that place to this day.” Jenna Flynn remembers family and fun at the now partially demolished ...

Now the Yupik, who straddle far east Russia and Alaska and are also known as Eskimos ... ‘There are probably 20 boys from my village fighting for Russia, and five have died so far,’ the ...

Every year they gather from tiny subsistence villages on Alaska’s Bering ... a 16-year-old Yup’ik eskimo who is determined to lead his village to the championship. Byron’s father abandoned ...

The Yupik athlete from the western Alaska village of Kipnuk can no longer compete because he’s graduated, but he performed for the crowd on Friday, and jumped 38 feet, 9 inches. He said Native ...