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Ann Fienup-Riordan is an independent scholar.¿She is the author and¿editor of many books, including Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup’ik Lives in Alaska Today and Wise Words of the Yup’ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You, New Edition (Nebraska, 2018). Alice Rearden is a Yup’ik speaker and leading translator for the Calista Elders Council.
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List of contents
Introduction to the New Bison Books Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Yup’ik Transcription and Translation
List of Yup’ik Contributors
1. Tegganret Qalartellruut Ayagyuat-llu Niicugniluteng
Elders Spoke and Young People Listened
2. Umyuaq Tuknilria
A Powerful Mind
3. Qanruyutet-gguq Egelrutaakut
They Say the Qanruyutet Guide Our Lives
4. Angayuqat Mikelnguut-llu
Parents and Children
5. Angutet Arnat-llu
Men and Women
6. Ilameggnek Tukuulriit
Those Who Are Rich in Relatives
7. Tuqluucaraq
The Way of Addressing One’s Relatives
8. Eyagyarat
Abstinence Practices
9. Tuarpiaq Yuuyaraat Yupiit Teguq’aqsi
Catching the Yup’ik Way of Life
Glossary
Tuqluutet: Yup’ik Kinship and Relational Terms
About the author
Ann Fienup-Riordan is an independent scholar. She is the author and editor of many books, including Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup’ik Lives in Alaska Today and Wise Words of the Yup’ik People: We Talk to You because We Love You, New Edition (Nebraska, 2018). Alice Rearden is a Yup’ik speaker and leading translator for the Calista Elders Council.
Summary
This bilingual volume focuses on the teachings, experiences, and practical wisdom of expert Native orators as they instruct a younger generation about their place in the world. In carefully crafted presentations, Yup'ik elders speak about their "rules for right living" - values, beliefs, and practices - which illuminate the enduring and still-relevant foundations of their culture today.
