People of the great Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and the Bering Sea coast, the most populous Alaska Native group and keepers of one of the most vital Indigenous languages in North America.
Russian Orthodox missions and trading posts touched the delta from the 1840s; epidemics struck hard, yet the Yup'ik endure. Under ANCSA (1971) their lands vest in the Calista Corporation, and Yup'ik remains widely spoken in the delta to 2026.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Central Alaskan Yup'ik — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1819 · 1867 · 1971.
A history of the peoples of the American Arctic and their forebears.
Broad survey of Bering Sea cultures including the Central Yup'ik.