Yup'ik song about a vision of a sailing ship in 1777
McIntyre, Chuna
Director
Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Dancers
Performer
McIntyre, Chuna
Singer
sound recording-musical
Library of Congress
2003
English, Central Yupik
sound recording
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1 audio file.
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Chuna McIntyre explains the song in English, then sings it in Central Yup'ik.
The song concerns a vision of the arrival of Europeans in Alaska by a Yup'ik medicine man a year before the exploration of the Alaska coastline by Captain James Cook between April and September, 1778. The Yup'ik had little further contact with Europeans until the second half of the nineteenth century, as they live north of the areas favored by Russian fur traders.
Forms part of the Chuna McIntyre and the Nunamata Yup'ik Eskimo Dancers at the Library of Congress Collection.
November 12, 2003.
Homegrown Concert Series.
Used by permission of Mr. Chuna McIntyre.
Yupik dance
Yupik languages--Alaska
Alaska
Folk songs
Central Yupik language
Yupik Eskimos
Yupik Eskimos--Alaska--Music
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