Yupik peoples

[12] The "person/people" (human being) in the Yupik and Inuit languages: The common ancestors of the Indigenous and Aleut (as well as various Paleo-Siberian groups) are believed by anthropologists to have their origin in eastern Siberia, arriving in the Bering Sea area approximately 10,000 years ago.

There appear to have been several waves of migration from Siberia to the Americas by way of the Bering land bridge,[14] which became exposed between 20,000 and 8,000 years ago during periods of glaciation.

[15] Traditionally, families spent the spring and summer at fish camp, then joined others at village sites for the winter.

The men's communal house, the qasgiq, was the community center for ceremonies and festivals that included singing, dancing, and storytelling.

Aside from ceremonies and festivals, the qasgiq was also where the men taught the young boys survival and hunting skills, as well as other life lessons.

The young boys were also taught how to make tools and qayaq (kayaks) during the winter months in the qasgiq.

Women taught the young girls how to tan hides and sew, process and cook game and fish, and weave.

The Yupʼik are unique among native peoples of the Americas in that they name children after the most recent person in the community to have died.