Inupiaq
Inupiat

Noorvik means "a place that is moved to" in Inupiaq.

Inupiaq is actually in much better shape than most Alaskan languages.

This included translating words such as "computer" into Inupiaq.

That the name was a misunderstanding of the local Inupiaq word for "Where at?"

He did not do this out of obligation, his people said, but because he was proud to be Inupiaq.

Brown created a curriculum around the Inupiaq language.

Next we would like to add the romanization used in Alaska for Inupiaq.

The Inupiaq residents are reluctantly making plans to relocate the villages on the mainland.

The name of the cooperative comes from an Inupiaq word, umiŋmak, "the animal with skin like a beard."

Before white people came to the region, the children of Kiana grew up speaking the Inupiaq language.

The nearest inhabited place, the Inupiaq village of Nuiqsut, is 56 miles north.

The springs are also referred to as Iyat, the Inupiaq word for cooking pot.

With regard to property, for the Inupiaq "the issue of land ownership had always been one of ‘relation’ rather than possession.

Length is important in distinguishing meaning in Inupiaq.

Each spring and fall Leavitt joins other Inupiaq in the whaling hunts.

Aiviq is the Inupiaq word for walrus.

Dozens of native language films are being shown, including the first to be written entirely in Alaska's Inupiaq language.

Information on the Alaska people, Inupiaq.

The region is trying to get the language back so all can speak Inupiaq and make the Elders of Kiana proud.

I know an Inupiaq elder from Barrow.

Baker's win marks the first time in the race's 38-year history in which an Alaskan Inupiaq has taken top prize.

Rosetta Stone and the Inupiaq Language Commission are helping this effort.

Inupiaq has around 21 consonants.

Pardue, whose heritage is a mix of Alutiiq and Inupiaq, started weaving as a child, 46 years ago.

Cournoyea is of mixed Norwegian and Inupiaq heritage.

As the week went on, the group met more Inupiat, at the fish camp or in their homes.

The river's name is Inupiat for "place where the east wind blows."

Subsistence plays a key role in the lives of the Inupiat.

"I felt the spirit move me to welcome him into Inupiat country.

The elders spoke the Inupiat language, while the kids were more hip.

The gun is still in use by a local Inupiat whaling crew.

At the time, many of the people still lived in sod houses and spoke the native Inupiat language.

Some Inupiat are angry that they cannot lease their own land, inside the refuge, to oil companies.

But oil development could threaten the sea mammals the Inupiat people hunt for food.

The primary language at the time was Inupiat, and students were also taught English.

Several Inupiat people developed pictographic writing systems in the early twentieth century.

In the autumn, nine Inupiat apprentices entered upon a course of instruction.

But it failed to win over the Inupiat, an Inuit group.

The native people of the village are Inupiat.

It is considered an honor in the Inupiat tradition to be able to capture and have a polar bear,' he said.

The modern Inupiat did not recognise the weapons, having used mostly metal harpoons since the 1870s.

The Inupiat language is a member of the Eskimo languages.

Whale hunters represented by a powerful regional corporation, the Inupiat say oil has changed their lives for the better.

"I thought it would be pretty cool to see how my ancestors lived," the fresh-faced 19-year-old Inupiat tells me.

She learned various skills from her mother, including tanning, herbalism, sewing, and Inupiat culture.

It is common among the Inupiat people.

An Inupiat guide tells us how strongly the community comes together - some young people have left for the big cities but many have not.

The Inupiat people call the plant wild potato and obtain dietary fiber from the roots.

It was us that were the Inupiat.

The present inhabitants of the valley are the Inupiat people, who subsist on hunting and fishing in the region.