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Yupik peoples
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| ~35,567 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| United States Alaska | 33,889 22,000[1] |
| Russia Chukotka | ~1,700 |
| Languages | |
| English (Alaska) • Russian (in Siberia) • Yupik languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (mostly Eastern Orthodox and Moravian), Shamanism, Atheism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Aleut, Chukchi, Inuit, Iñupiat, Sirenik | |
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The Yupik (/ˈjuːpɪk/; Russian: Юпикские народы) are a group of Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of western, southwestern, and southcentral Alaska and the Russian Far East. They are related to the Inuit and Iñupiat. Yupik peoples include the following:
- Alutiiq, or Sugpiaq, of the Alaska Peninsula and coastal and island areas of southcentral Alaska.
- Yupʼik or Central Alaskan Yupʼik of the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, the Kuskokwim River, and along the northern coast of Bristol Bay as far east as Nushagak Bay and the northern Alaska Peninsula at Naknek River and Egegik Bay in Alaska.
- Siberian Yupik, including Naukan, Chaplino,[2] and—in a linguistic capacity—the Sirenik[3] of the Russian Far East and St. Lawrence Island[4] in western Alaska.
- ^ "The American Indian and Alaska Native Population: 2010" (PDF). Census.gov. US Census Bureau. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
- ^ Achirgina-Arsiak, Tatiana. "Northeastern Siberian: Yupik (Asiatic Eskimo)." Alaska Native Collections. 1996. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ Vakhtin, Nikolai (1998). "Endangered Languages in Northeast Siberia: Siberian Yupik and other Languages of Chukotka" (PDF). Siberian Studies: 162.
- ^ Video about Yupik communities on St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea
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