The coldest years in Alaska, in the 1600s ... and English, not Yupik, is their first language. Their time is occupied not with gathering food or making tools needed for survival, but with school ...

Sally Samson, a Yup’ik woman from Bethel, attended the event at the University of Alaska Fairbanks as a facilitator for the Yup’ik language group.

English Language Learner teacher Mona Grib reviews ... with close to 2,000 Spanish speakers and nearly 1,000 Hmong speakers. Yup’ik, Russian, Korean and Lao make up the next largest speaker ...