Eskimo (Inuit) (Yup 'Ik)

Links

Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks

The Alaska Native Heritage Center Museum, Anchorage, Alaska.

Alaska Federation of Natives

Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs, Community Photo Library

 

Films:

  • Angotee
    Follows life of a boy in the Eastern Arctic
  • Lucy Beaver, Skinsewer
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Lucy Beaver explains and demonstrates the native craft of sewing animal skins into useful product
  • Respect for the Past
    the science of archeology as it relates to exploring the Eskimo past, plus career opportunities in archeology
  • The Fascination of Our Past
    an introduction to the science of archeology as it relates to exploring the Eskimo past
  • Uncle Sam’s Men
    historical documentary tells the story of the men and women serving in the Tundra Army of Alaska’s Territorial Guard during World War II where more than half of the Guard was comprised on Yup’ik and Inupiaq Eskimos
  • A Dancing People "Yupiit Yuraryarait"
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: dancers and musicians from nine Yup’ik Eskimo villages gather in St. Mary’s for the first major regional dance festival in more than 50 years—film documents three days of dancing, gift giving, and contests.
  • Arctic Environment
    Naturalist photographer Herman Kitchen captures the world of the Arctic in the summer
  • Arctic Seal Hunters
    hunt for seal meat
  • Cama-i Dance Festival 1993 Part I
    annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska—groups participating include the Koshare Indian Dancers of Colorado; King Island Dancers of Nome; White Sail Dancers of Laverencia from Chutotka, Russia; Stebbins; Emmonak; Hoop
  • Cama-i Dance Festival 1993 Part II
    annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska—groups participating include the Koshare Indian Dancers of Colorado; King Island Dancers of Nome; White Sail Dancers of Laverencia from Chutotka, Russia; Stebbins; Emmonak; Hoop
  • Cama-i Dance Festival 2010 Part I
    annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska in the Spring—groups participating include the Bethel Traditional Dancers; Bethel High School Warriors Dancers; St. Mary’s Dancers; Tomodachi Daiko Taiko Drummers; Chevak Dancer
  • Cama-i Dance Festival 2010 Part II
    annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska in the Spring—groups participating include the Bethel Traditional Dancers; Bethel High School Warriors Dancers; St. Mary’s Dancers; Tomodachi Daiko Taiko Drummers; Chevak Dancer
  • Canadian Photographer Lives as an Eskimo (newsreel)
    Douglas Wilkinson lives for 14 months with Eskimos in Canada
  • Cross of the Yukon
    history of St. Mary’s Mission, an orphanage and school founded by Jesuits priests and Ursuline sisters in 1905 in Akulurak, on the Yukon River, and closed down in 1987
  • Duty Bound
    chronicles the experiences of the Second Scout Batallion of the Alaska Army National Guard, composed primarily of Yup’ik soldiers from subarctic Western Alaska, as they deploy to Northern Kuwait for one year during Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Eskimo
    Native life north of Nome, Alaska—as seen on TV series, Bold Journeya
  • Eskimo Arts and Crafts
    Craft activities of the Inuit of Baffin Island
  • Eskimo Children
    Eskimo of Nunivak Island
  • Eskimo Hunters (Northwestern Alaska)
    (Northwestern Alaska): from The World and Its People series Produced by Louis de Rochemont
  • Eskimo Summer
    Essential summer activities Inuit groups that live apart from settlements in Canada and USA
  • Eskimo Walrus Hunt
    Eskimo hunters in kayaks search for walrus in the early 1930s
  • Eskimos Winter in Western Alaska
    Winter in Western Alaska
  • Eyes of the Spirit
    shows the creation of three masks designed and carved by Yup’ik master craftsmen—and presents a public performance by the Bethel Native Dancers of stories and songs, a performance that revived masked dancing in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska
  • Following the Star
    celebrating Christmas in the Russian Orthodox manner in the Orthodox villages of the lower Kuskokwim River
  • Frontiers of the North
    (Parts 1 and 2): the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition begins to organize the Northwest
  • Giant of the North
    installment of Primitive Peoples series
  • How to Build an Igloo (Arctic Notebook 1)
    Inuits show how to construct an ice home
  • Just Dancing
    dancers from the Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta villages perform
  • Kotzebue 1
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Interviews about old customs and skills
  • Kotzebue 2
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: More discussion of old skills, especially leather work
  • Kotzebue 3
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Discussion of the old ways concluded
  • Kotzebue 4
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Discuss the Historical Preservation Project and Eskimo past
  • Kotzebue 5
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Eskimo Olympics festivities
  • Kotzebue 6
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Interview and more July 4 festivities
  • Kotzebue 7
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Blanket toss and dancing at festivities
  • Kotzebue 8
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Scenes of everyday life
  • Land of the Long Day
    Inuit life on Baffin Island during the changing seasons
  • Nanook of the North
    celebrated early documentary from documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty explores the rugged life of Eskimos
  • Nick Charles, Carver
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: wood carver Nicholas Charles demonstrates and explains his art
  • North West Frontier
    Study of Indians, Eskimos, and whites living together and interacting in settlements in Canada’s
  • Northward to Nome
    Sullivan Richardson adventure film in Alaska
  • Northward to Nome Outtakes
    Unused footage from Sullivan Richardson’s visit to Kotsebue and Nome, Alaska in late 1940s
  • Old Dances New Dancers
    documents the first annual Young People’s Eskimo Dance Awareness Festival held in Chevak, Alaska—a festival to revitalize traditional Yup’ik dancing among young people.
  • Parlez-vous Yup’ik?
    a troupe of amateur actors from Toksook Bay, Alaska travel to Nancy, France to present David Hunsacker’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone at the Theatre des Nations—then at LaMama Playhouse in New York City [for the actual play, see Yup’ik Anti
  • Ramparts of Two Worlds
    Hunting and daily activities of Eskimos of Little Diomede Island in Alaska
  • St. Mary's Potlatch
    residents of three lower Yukon River villages gather in St. Mary’s to celebrate the traditional Yup’ik Messenger Feast at which young people coming of age are honored
  • Storyknifing
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: explains the traditional manner in which children are entertained by native storytellers using storyknives to sketch images in the mud while telling the legends of the community
  • Tales of the Tundra
    Yup’ik storytellers spin tales of fantastic creatures, ghosts, and the mischievous “Little People”
  • The Treasures of Our Past
    focuses on artifacts and what they tell scholars about our past through a visit to the Smithsonian Institution and the collection assembled by Edward Nelson
  • The Treasures of Our Past
    focuses on artifacts and what they tell scholars about our past through a visit to the Smithsonian Institution and the collection assembled by Edward Nelson
  • The Way We Live Part 1
    two master carvers demonstrate the making and use of the traditional fish trap—in the Yup’ik language
  • The Way We Live Part 2
    Eskimo women explain and enjoy a seal party—in the Yup’ik language
  • The Way We Live Part 3
    old men explain the use and care of dog sleds
  • The Way We Live Part 4
    master carvers from Nunivak Island explain and demonstrate the function of the dance stick—in Yup’ik language
  • Timber and Totem Poles
    Native American totem poles
  • Uncle John, Carver
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: ivory and wood carver John Kusowyuk demonstrates and explains his art
  • Utkeagvikmuit: The Barrow Eskimo Part I
    magnificent silent color film of Eskimo life in Northern Alaska; produced and edited by Edwin C. Kraft (1955-1965)
  • Utkeagvikmuit: The Barrow Eskimo Part II
    Silent color film of Eskimo life in Alaska by Edwin C. Kraft
  • Utkeagvikmuit: The Barrow Eskimo Part III
    Magnificent silent color film of Eskimo life in Northern Alaska; produced and edited by Edwin C. Kraft (1955-1965)
  • We Lived With the Eskimos
    American couple explores the state of Indian culture in Michoacán, Mexico
  • Yup’ik Antigone
    presentation of David Hunsacker’s adaptation of the 2,500-year-old Greek play by Sophocles—here realized in the Yup’ik language with English language narrator/interpreter