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 ...

Fr. Michael Nicholai pauses to offer the shovel to another clergyman while uncovering the grave of Matushka Olga during the process of her exhumation in Kwethluk on Nov. 16, 2024. (Courtesy Katie ...

Riley Lekanoff (left) of Unalaska and Wassilie Meyers (right) of Pilot Station get an airraq lesson from longtime string storyteller Matthew Nicolai. (Emily Schwing/KYUK) Stories can be told in many ...

The Yupík people of southwestern Alaska: continuity and change -- Yupík dancing is like Akutaq: a rich mixture -- Sivuqaq, home of the Siberian Yupik -- Two against the Arctic: my summer as a "movie ...

One of the world’s oldest continuous communities is ‘breathing its last breath’ as some of its few remaining men die fighting for Russia more than 4,000 miles away in Ukraine. The Yupik are among the ...

A week after the remnants of a typhoon slammed into coastal communities in Western Alaska, residents and hundreds of evacuees are taking stock of the damage. As KYUK's Sage Smiley reports, many of ...