Sugpiaq

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Sugpiaq dancers in traditional costume ( Alutiiq Agnguaq )

The Sugpiaq (literal translation: real people ) or Alutiiq (literal translation: Aleutian Islands ), also Pacific Gulf Yupik , are Alaska Natives and one of the Yupik - Eskimo tribes in southern Alaska . The Sugpiaq (or Sugpiat) habitat is the Alaska Peninsula and the southern coast of mainland Alaska (and Kodiak Island ) around the Kenai Peninsula and Prince William Sound . The current population is estimated at 3,500, of whom about 200 speak Alutiiq (proper names: Sugcestun, Sugtestun, Sugt'stun ), an Eskimo-Aleut language.

Tribes

  • Kaniagmiut (Koniag-Sugpiaq, Die Konjagen ): Ugaassarmiut, Qik'rtarmiut, Tangirnarmiut.
  • Chugachigmiut (Chugach-Sugpiaq): Tyanirmiut, Shuqlurmiut, Nutyirmiut, Palugvirmiut, Alukarmiut, Atyarmiut, Talitlarmiut, Kangirtlurmiut, Ugalakmiut.

See also

Web links

Commons : Sugpiaq  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Sugpiaq ( Memento from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), archive.org, January 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ Report on Population and Resources of Alaska at the Eleventh Census: 1890 by United States Census Office - Alaska - 1893 (= The Kaniagmiut, to whom the Russians applied the name of Aleut )
  3. ^ East Prince William Sound Landscape Assessment (PDF; 5.7 MB), Cordova Ranger District, Chugach National Forest. September 9, 2008 (= The term Alutiiq is the Sugtestun pronunciation of the Russian introduced name Aleut and is commonly used as a self-designation by the people of the Chugach region )
  4. ↑ Alaska Native Language Center: Alaska Native Languages ​​/ Population and Speaker Statistics ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uaf.edu
  5. ^ Heinrich Johann Holmberg , Etnographic Sketches on the Peoples of Russian America, In Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae . 1856: Vol. 4, 1863: Vol. 7
  6. ^ Stories and Photographs of the Chugach Region