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Inupiat shaman's figure. Kuskokwim Yupiit mask Map of the Arctic region showing the distribution of Arctic peoples and their culture areas, outlined by a red line. The map labels groups such as the Inuit, Chukchi, Sami, Yakut, and others across North America, Greenland, northern Europe, and northern Asia, distinguishing between the American Arctic culture area and the Eurasian Arctic and subarctic culture area.
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Yupiit

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Also known as: Asian Eskimo, Asiatic Eskimo, Yupik
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Yupiit, Indigenous Arctic people traditionally residing in Siberia, St. Lawrence Island and the Diomede Islands in the Bering Sea and Bering Strait, and Alaska. They are culturally related to the Chukchi and Inuit, of Canada and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland). Although some anthropologists argue that the Yupiit are culturally distinct from the other Inuit peoples, the Yupiit have made a political decision to be designated as Inuit. The traditional economic activity of the Yupiit was the...

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