Dedication: "With Love and Respect, this Program is dedicated to the Elders of the Nine Villages."
The KYUK TV Productions Collection: A series of informative TV documentaries spotlighting varied aspects of life among the Yup’ik people of Southwestern Alaska. These films were produced by television station KYUK (Bethel Broadcasting) in Bethel, Alaska, which has kindly made them available to the American Indian Film Gallery.
Named locations: Anchorage, Sitka, Juneau, Ketchikan, British Columbia, Seattle, Washington DC
Major themes covered: The meaning of totem poles in southeastern Alaskan cultures; contemporary native art and its relationship to traditional native art and practices
Named locations: Kotzebue Sound (named and shown); Kotzebue; Ralph Wien Memorial Airport (shown)
Major themes covered: The KYUK TV Productions Collection: scenes of everyday life
Individuals Named: No one specific, but ancestors are referred to in general
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Major themes covered: unused footage from Sullivan Richardson’s visit to Kotsebue and Nome, Alaska in late 1940s
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Named locations: Mt. McKinley, Alaska, Bering Sea
Major themes covered: installment of Primitive Peoples series
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Named locations: Etah, North Greenland (78' 20" North latitude), Sunrise Point, Borah
Major themes covered: Eskimo hunters in kayaks search for walrus: footage from Teens or Twenties; narration added in the early 1930s as a travel-talk.
Native activities shown: Walrus-hunting in traditional manner.
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Native language spoken:none; English voiceover
Noteworthy elements: "Note the intelligence of the Eskimo people."