The Arctic, northern Europe and Russia
Yupik
Lands
Settlements on the eastern coast of the Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, across the Bering Strait from Alaska
Countries Russian Federation
Facts 3
Governance
Inuit from Chukotka became part of the Inuit Circumpolar Council in 1992, a goal that was in ICC's vision from the very beginning.
As of 1992 Source: Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada, About ICC (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Culture
Yupik hunters are regarded as originators of traditional whaling in the region, hunting walrus, seal and whale with harpoons.
Source: RAIPON (Association of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East), Эскимосы (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
Culture
Carving walrus ivory and whale baleen is a highly developed Yupik craft in Chukotka.
Source: RAIPON (Association of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East), Эскимосы (opens in a new tab) Checked Suggest a correction to this fact
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