Angucinraankuk Kangipluk - IIu
Nick Gumlickpuk & Alexie Gust Sr. of New Stuyahok (Cetuyaraq)
Interviewed, transcribed & translated by Marie Meade
Edited by Arnaq Esther IIutsik
Contained in this book is the equivalent of an encyclopedia of detailed knowledge and insights as recalled by two Yup'ik Elders from their life in the early 1900s around the village of New Stuyahok on the Nushagak River. Working in close collaboration with local cultural specialists Marie Meade and Esther IIutsik, Elders Nick Gumlickpuk (Angucinraq) and Alexies Gust Sr. (Kangiqluk) give us a first-hand account of the extensive cultural heritage in which they grew up. We learn the way of life by which the Yup'ik people survived and thrived before local knowledge systems became entangled with the influx of outside influences brought to the region by the fur traders, missionaries, teachers and government agents.
Along with the extensive knowledge and skills that are documented here, we gain access to the rich connection to place and local ways of knowing and living as reflected in the details provided by the original practitioners of Yup'ik language and culture.
-Ray Barnhardt, PhD
To order a copy, please contact the Alaska Native Knowledge Network at 907-474-5897 or email Richard Hum at rehum@alaska.edu.
