Chuna McIntyre, a Yup’ik cultural ambassador, shows detail of wolf and Celtic beads during a Yup’ik regalia workshop on Saturday, April 1, 2017, at Cama-i Dance Festival in Bethel, Alaska.

When the time came for Cheri Alstrom to walk the high fashion runway, she donned her Yup’ik regalia and waited her turn backstage. The reaction from her fellow performers caught her off-guard.

Though known as Eskimos in American popular culture, they prefer to be referred to by their traditional name, accordering to Dena Ivey, president of the Native American Law Students Association and a ...

As a 10th grader, Andrew, who is Yup’ik and Iñupiaq, testified in front of the Anchorage school board, advocating for Alaska Native and American Indian students’ right to wear their traditional ...

Nyché Andrew of Anchorage, who is Yup’ik and Iñupiaq, has advocated for Native students’ right to wear regalia to their high school graduation since she was in 10th grade.

Yup’ik is a living culture fully part of the modern world, ... who had chosen to interpret the excavation of dance regalia from Nunalleq by writing a new traditional drum song or yuraq about the ...

Nine villages came to that festival in 1982. Andy believed that Yup'ik dancing would revive if people could experience again the joy of coming together to share songs, stories and dance. He was right.

Yup’ik dancing, Christian prayers ... For the first time this year, youth dancers with the Curyung Wolverine Dance Group performed, adorned in traditional regalia and holding tegumiak, ...

The Kodiak Alutiiq Dancers will be one of many groups featured during the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

His mother, Jacqueline Morris, had the cap made for her son, who is Yup’ik and Inupiaq, ... we can wear our Native regalia,” said Ropati, who is Yup’ik, Samoan and Mexican.