Naukanski Yupik

The Naukan, also known as the Naukanski, are a Siberian Yupik people and an indigenous people of Siberia. They live in the Chukotka Autonomous Region of eastern Russia.

Language

The Naukan Yupik language is a Yupik language, belonging to the Eskimo–Aleut languages. Many Naukan people now speak the Chukchi language.

Culture

Traditionally Naukan people hunted sea mammals. Guests from remote settlements traveled from remote settlements to participate in ''pol'a, the month-long Naukan whale festival.

History

Archaeological evidence places the Naukan on the Chukotka Peninsula off the Bering Sea back 2,000 years. They used to live on Big Diomede Island and Cape Dezhnev in the Bering Strait. The Soviet Union relocated Naukan people from their traditional coastal village of Naukan (village), Naukan in 1958.Ainana, Ludmila, Tatiana Achirgina-Arsiak, and Tasian Tein
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''Alaska Native Collections.'' Accessed 9 Feb 2014.
They now reside in the indigenous village of Lorino, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Lorino.

See also

* Yaranga, a conical reindeer-hide tent
* Central Siberian Yupik language
* Sirenik Yupik
* Yupik peoples
* Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East

Notes

External links

Naukan abandoned Village on Cape Dezhnev Peninsula, Siberia
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Ethnic groups in Siberia
Chukchi Sea
Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East
Siberian Yupik