With Guidance and Support from Elders We must Teach our Children Yup'ik Values:
Love for Children
Respect for Others
Sharing
Humility
Hard work
Spirituality
Cooperation
Family Roles
Knowledge of family tree
Knowledge of Language
Hunter Success
Domestic Skills
Avoid conflict
Humor
Respect for nature
Respect For Land
Respect For Nature
By The Design Of Our Creator We Were Created Yup'ik In Space And Time;
Proud, For Generations To Come, Of The Values Given To Us By Our Creator.
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Eskimo culture have some great values. We have a poster showing different cultural values for different Eskimo groups, and they are all so awesome. Unfortunately, the kids are not growing up learning these values. I just colored a bunch of posters with Yup'ik values and laminated them and hung them up in the classroom. The values also have the Yup'ik phrase that goes with it.
I just watched this video that was filmed in Hooper Bay and talks about the issues of the Yup'iks losing their culture. How the children do not hear stories, they do not know the language, they do not follow the customs. At first the language was lost because schools rewarded children for speaking English instead of Yup'ik, gave them candy and juice and punished them for speaking their native tongue. Now you have entire generations who cannot speak the language and the native speakers dying out. This is why they are trying to teach the language in schools now. But it is very sad.