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"Oscar Kawagley is a man of two worlds, walking the sometimes path bewildering line between traditional Yupiaq culture and the Westernized Yupiaq life today. In this study, Kawagley follows both memories of his Yupiaq grandmother, who raised him with the stories of the Bear Woman and respectful knowledge of the reciprocity of nature, and his own education in science as it is taught in Western schools. Kawagley is a man who hears the elders' voices in Alaska, knows how to look for the weather and to use the land and its creatures with the most delicate care.

In a call to unite the two parts of his own and modern Yupiaq history, Kawagley proposes a way of teaching that incorporates all ways of knowing available in Yupiaq and Western science. He has traveled a long journey, but it ends where it began, in a fish camp in southwestern Alaska, a home for his heart, mind, and spirit."

Yupiaq Education Revisited by Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
For the Yupiaq people, culture, knowing and living are intricately interrelated.
Living in a harsh environment requires a vast array of precise empirical knowledge to survive the many risks ...

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