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I had to post this wonderful video from the Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade students in Quinhagak (Kuinerraq in the Yup'ik language), Alaska (USA). These are Yup'ik people (you probably would call them Eskimos, but they do not like that word). There are about 16,900 speakers of Yup'ik, which is as different from its sister language,Yupik, as Spanish is from French. The word Yup'ik comes from "yuk" = "person" plus "Pik" = "real."
Quinhagak is a fishing and canning village and had a permanent population of 555 as of the 2000 census. The name means "new river channel." The village has been proven to have existed since at least 1000 AD/CE.
These are poor but proud, hard-working people. From the video, it looks like almost the entire village helped in the production of this wonderful statement. I especially love the girls spinning at 2:04 and the very cold girl at 2:32.
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