Two Alaska moms create a Yup'ik alphabet coloring book, with an Iñupiaq one next in line. In Alaska, a new Yup'ik coloring book aims to strengthen culture for the next generation Yup'ik is the most ...

Nikki Corbett had a problem. Expecting her first child in 2017, she couldn’t find any kind of primers or basic educational materials to teach young kids the Yup’ik language. “I don’t have a ...

This video, presenting the Yup'ik alphabet, was created by a group of students (and teachers) at Ket'acik & Aapalluk Memorial School in Kwethluk, a village in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Aaron Kennedy, ...

The Anchorage School District has immersion programs in languages like German, Spanish and Japanese. But until recently, there were no immersion programs for Alaska Native languages. A kindergarten ...

Yup'ik is the most commonly spoken Native language in Alaska, but Nikki Corbett couldn't find any Yup'ik books to teach her kids the language. She wanted to fix that. Corbett grew up in the majority ...

The mother and small business owner had searched online and in stores near her home in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, but she could not find any books to teach her young children the Yup’ik language.