Resources

Websites:

Alaska State Council on the Arts www.eed.state.ak.us/aksca/

Rasmuson Foundation www.rasmuson.org 

Qanirtuuq Incorporated www.qanirtuuq.co

Books:

Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1983. The Nelson Island Eskimo: Social Structure and Ritual Distribution. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Pacific University Press.

———.  1990. Eskimo Essays. New Brunswick & London: Rutgers University Press.

———.  1991. The Real People and the Children of Thunder: The Yup’ik Eskimo Encounter with Moravian Missionaries John and Edith Kilbuck. Norman & London: University of Oklahoma Press.

———.  1994. Boundaries and Passages: Rule and Ritual in Yup’ik Eskimo Oral Tradition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

 

———. 1996. The Living Tradition of Yup’ik Masks: Aqayuliyararput Our Way of Making Prayer. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press.

———.  2005a. Ciuliamta Akluit/ Things of Our Ancestors: Yup’ik Elders Explore the Jacobsen Collection at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. Seattle; London; Bethel, Alaska: University of Washington Press, in association with Calista Elders Council.

———. 2005b. Wise Words of the Yup’ik People: We Talk to You Because We Love You. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press.

———.  2005c. Yup’ik Elders at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin: Fieldwork Turned on Its Head. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, in association with Calista Elders Council.

Fitzhugh, William, and Susan Kaplan. 1982. Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Gunther, Erna. 1976. A Catalogue of the Ethnological Collections in the Sheldon Jackson Museum. Sitka, Alaska: Sheldon Jackson College.

Hawkes, E.W. 1913. “The ‘Inviting-In’Feast of the Alaska Eskimo.” Memoir 45. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau.

Jacobsen, Johan Adrian. 1977. Alaskan Voyage 1881-1883: An Expedition to the Northwest Coast of America. Translated by Erna Gunther. Chicago& London: The University of Chicago Press.

Jacobson, Steven A. 2012. Yup’ik Eskimo Dictionary. 2nd ed. Vol. 1 &2. 2 vols. Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Lantis, Margaret. 1946. “The Social Culture of the Nunivak Eskimo.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 35 (3): 153–323.

———. 1947. Alaskan Eskimo Ceremonialism. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press.

———. 1960. Eskimo Childhood and Interpersonal Relationships: Nunivak Biographies and Genealogies. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Nelson, Edward. 1900. The Eskimo about Bering Strait. Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office. 

Tennant, Edward A., and Joseph N. Bitar, eds. 1981. Yuut Qanemciit/ Yupik Lore: Oral Traditions of an Eskimo People. Bethel, Alaska: The Lower Kuskokwim School District.

VanStone, James. 1967. Eskimos of the Nushagak River: An Ethnographic History. Vol. 15. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press.

Zagoskin, Lavrentiy. 1967. “Articles of L.A. Zagoskin About Siberia and Russian America.” In Lieutenant Zagoskin’s Travels in Russian America, 1842-1844: The First Ethnographic and Geographic Investigations in the Yukon and Kuskokwim Valleys of Alaska. University of Toronto Press.