LKSD’s new test to measure Yugtun in a Yup’ik way
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Yugtun is the most widely spoken native language in Alaska and the second largest in the United States, after Navajo. Bethel is the hub for Yugtun speakers, and the language is finally getting a curriculum and test that captures its core.

This February, the Lower...
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„Alaska Natives trying to access emergency aid were met with nonsensical forms in their language with sentences like 'your husband is a polar bear'” #Iñupiaq #Yupik #Inuktitut
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Alaska's US Representative-elect, Mary Peltola (D) in a Qaspeq (jacket) & Piluguk (boots) from her Yup'ik tribe yesterday at Capitol in DC.
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