Nikki Corbett had a problem. Expecting her first child in 2017, she couldn’t find any kind of primers or basic educational materials to teach young kids the Yup’ik language. “I don’t have a ...

Two Alaska moms create a Yup'ik alphabet coloring book, with an Iñupiaq one next in line. In Alaska, a new Yup'ik coloring book aims to strengthen culture for the next generation Yup'ik is the most ...

A man known for keeping alive the language and culture of the indigenous people of Alaska's rural southwest died on Monday. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: His name was John Active. He promoted Yup'ik ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Anchorage elementary school has launched a language immersion program in Yup’ik for a kindergarten class. Lorina Warren teaches her kindergarten class at College Gate ...

On a warm, sunny day in the village of Tuntutuliak, a group of children run around each other on a boardwalk outside of the bright blue building that houses the village’s K-12 school.Their shouting is ...

The Arctic Studies Center hosted a St. Lawrence Island Yupik language and culture seminar at the Anchorage Museum in January 2012, bringing together seven fluent speakers for five days to discuss ...

The mother and small business owner had searched online and in stores near her home in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, but she could not find any books to teach her young children the Yup’ik language.

The Alaska Office of the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center hosted a St. Lawrence Island Yupik language and culture seminar in January 2012, bringing together seven fluent speakers: John Apassingok, ...

Yup'ik is the most commonly spoken Native language in Alaska, but Nikki Corbett couldn't find any Yup'ik books to teach her kids the language. She wanted to fix that. Corbett grew up in the majority ...

Former All Things Considered commentator John Active has died at 69. He was a Yup'ik language storyteller in Bethel, Alaska. His efforts helped keep the indigenous language alive. A man known for ...