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Alaska Science Indigenous Language Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Tuttu (Caribou)

Learn key Iñupiaq vocabulary terms for Caribou.

Climate and Our Way of Life

Learn key vocabulary terms related to Climate and Our Way of Life

Dooyks ada Aks (Currents and Tides)

Learn key Sm’algyax vocabulary terms for currents and tides.

Drones in Alaska

Learn key vocabulary terms related to Drones

Fresh Water

Learn key vocabulary terms related to fresh water

Iñupiaq Atchagat (alphabet)

Learn the Iñupiaq alphabet.

Iñupiat IỊitqusiat (values)

Learn key Iñupiat vocabulary terms related to Iñupiat Iịitqusiat: Iñupiaq values.

Sayummaktuq (It is Energized)

Learn key vocabulary terms related to energy

Qanniksuq: It is Snowing

Learn key Iñupiaq vocabulary terms related to Qanniksuq: It is Snowing.

Journey through the Heliosphere: The Sun-Earth System in Color

Learn key vocabulary terms related to the Sun.

Ch'oondaii eenjit Gwanzhįh (Medicinal Plants)

Learn key vocabulary terms related to medicinal plants

Kiuġuyat/Kiuġiyaq: The Northern Lights

Read, listen and practice key Iñupiaq vocabulary terms related to the northern lights.

Kangirciluku Imaq (Understanding the Ocean)

Learn key Sugt'stun/Alutiiq vocabulary terms for understanding the ocean.

Volcano

Learn key vocabulary terms related to volcanoes

Credits

Tuttu (Caribou)

Upper Kobuk Iñupiaq
Translation by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon, Lena Suuyuk Hanna, and Nellie Nigruaġruk Cleveland
Narration by Nellie Nigruaġruk Cleveland and Hannah Paniyavluk Loon

Climate and Our Way of Life

Dinjii Zhuh Ky'àa (Gwich'in)
Translation and narration by Virginia Peter

Kodiak Sugt'stun (Alutiiq)
Translations by Dehrich Isuwiq Chya and Spiridon Gguitka Ash
Narration by Dehrich Isuwiq Chya

Sm'algyax (Ts'msyen)
Translations and narrations by Gyibaawm Laxha (David R. Boxley)and Mangyepsa Gyipaayg (Kandi McGilton)

Coastal Iñupiaq
Translations by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon and Ricky Qaagaġliq Ashby
Narration by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon

Dooyks ada Aks (Currents and Tides)

Sm’algyax
Translation by Gyibaawm Laxha (David R. Boxley) and Mangyepsa Gyipaayg (Kandi McGilton)
Narration by Gyibaawm Laxha (David R. Boxley) and Mangyepsa Gyipaayg (Kandi McGilton) and Marcella Se'iga Liimii Da Ts'm Ksyen Asicksik

Drones in Alaska

Lower Koyukon Athabascan
Translation and narration by Paul Mountain

Ten Kenaga'/Lower Tanana Athabascan
Translation and narration by David Engles

Sugt'stun/Alutiiq
Translation and narration by Spiridon Gguitka Ash
Edits by: Kukuu Sally Ash

Fresh Water

Sm’algyax
Translation by Gyibaawm Laxha (David R. Boxley) and Mangyepsa Gyipaayg (Kandi McGilton)
Narration by Gyibaawm Laxha (David R. Boxley) and Mangyepsa Gyipaayg (Kandi McGilton)

Iñupiaq Atchagat (alphabet)

Coastal Iñupiaq
Narration by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon

Iñupiat Iḷitqusiat (values)

Upper Kobuk Iñupiaq
Translation by Lorena Kapniaq Williams
Narration by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon

Sayummaktuq (It is Energized)

Translation by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon, Nellie Nigruaġruk Cleveland, Ricky Qaagaġliq Ashby, Lena Suuyuk Hanna and Lance Qaluraq Kramer
Narration by Nellie Nigruaġruk Cleveland

Qanniksuq: It is Snowing

Upper Kobuk Iñupiaq
Translation by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon, Lena Suuyuk Hanna, Lance Qaluraq Kramer and Macy Kenworthy
Translation edited by Lorena Kapniaq Williams
Narration by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon

Journey through the Heliosphere: The Sun-Earth System in Color

Central Yup'ik/Yugtun
Translation done by Nalugalria Joevahnta Usugan-Weddington

Upper Kobuk Iñupiaq
Translations by Hannah Paniyavluk Loon, Ricky Qaagaġliq Ashby
Narration by Nellie Nigruaġruk Cleveland, Hannah Paniyavluk Loon

Ts'msyen/Sm'algya̱x
Translation and narration by Marcella Se'iga Liimii Da Ts'm Ksyen Asicksik

Lower Koyukon Athabascan
Translation and narration by Paul Mountain

Ten Kenaga'/Lower Tanana Athabascan
Translation and narration by David Engles

X̱aad Kíl/Haida
Translation and narration by Kihl Gúul Jáad Emily Edenshaw-Chafin
Reviewed by 'Waats'asdiyei Joe Yates

Sugt’stun/Alutiiq
Translation and narration by Dehrich Isuwiq Chya

Gwich'in/Dinjii Shuh K'yaa
Translations: Florence Newman and Connie Newman
Pronunciation: Connie Newman

Ch’oondaii eenjit Gwanzhįh (Medicinal Plants)

Dinjii Zhuh Ky'àa/Gwich'in
Translation by Virginia Peter, Marilyn Savage, Paul Herbert, Sam Alexander
Narration by Virginia Peter

Kiuguyat/Kiugiyaq: The Northern Lights

Upper Kobuk Iñupiaq (also called Northern Seward Peninsula Iñupiaq)
Translation by the Alaska Native Language Center, UAF.
Narration by Annie Conger

Coastal Iñupiaq (also called North Slope Iñupiaq)
Translation by the Alaska Native Language Center, UAF.
Translation edited by the Iñupiat History, Language and Culture Center.
Narration by Patuk Glenn

Kangirciluku Imaq (Understanding the Ocean)

Sugt'stun/Alutiiq
Translation by Spiridon Gguitka Ash and Dehrich Isuwiq Chya
Narration by Dehrich Isuwiq Chya

Peyuluk (Volcano)

Translation by Audrey O’Domin Kosbruk and McKinley Alden
Narration by Audrey O’Domin Kosbruk
Editing by Audrey O’Domin Kosbruk

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