MEXICO CITY — Yupik the polar bear died after spending more than 25 years in a barren enclosure at a warm Mexican zoo, and activists said Wednesday the zoo had resisted efforts to transfer her ...

BETHEL — The Holy Bible is now available in the modern Yupik writing style.The translation to Yupik — spoken by an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives from ...

A new map of the nation from Slate says Yupik is the most commonly spoken language in Alaska, besides English. The map, which uses data from the Census Bureau s American Community Survey, shows ...

I'm Siberian Yupik and I'm from Gambell on St. Lawrence Island It's right between Nome and Russia. My mom did tell me that my great, great grandma crocheted, ...

John Buxton appraises a Yupik shaman spirit mask, ca. 1900. In a preview from Madison, Hour 1, tribal arts expert John Buxton appraises a shaman spirit mask marked on the back with a $1.00 sale ...

Yupik’s life of loneliness has come to an end. According to the Associated Press , the female polar bear died at Benito Juarez Zoo in Morelia, Mexico, after spending 25 years living in a barren ...

Elizaveta is Siberian Yupik and was born in 1942 in the village of Naukan, Chukotka, on the edge of the Bering Sea. She lived there until 1949. When she was seven years old her family moved about ...

The ACLU is coming to the aid of fishermen cited for taking salmon during a closure on the Kuskokwim River in 2012. The civil liberties group thinks Alaska should do more to protect the religious ...

EXCLUSIVE: PBS‘s Independent Lens strand has acquired feature doc One with the Whale, spotlighting a Siberian Yupik community facing up to climate change and animal rights activists. Co-directed ...

Western Alaska Yup’ik village floods as river rises from a series of storms Storm-battered residents in the western Alaska village of Napakiak are preparing for the third storm in a week ...

Bad news for everyone’s unapologetically racist, highly visible but somehow very silenced uncle: the racial discrimination complaint against Bill Leak has been dropped, due to what complainant ...