Nunivak Island Genealogy

By Nussaalar Muriel M Amos

The genealogical information of Nunivak Island, dating back to the early 1800s, was primarily gathered from the book Eskimo Childhood and Interpersonal Relationships written by Margaret Lantis. Lantis took three expeditions to Nunivak Island, the first one dating at the start of World War II, 19391940, in which she spent her time getting acquainted and gaining trust with people of Nunivak. After the war, she visited the island again for four months in the summer and fall of 1946 to gather information on social and economic changes and gathering of autobiographies. The last visit was 19551956 to record the genealogies of Nunivak Island. All the Cupig names were recorded in Lantiss phonetic style. In the years between 19941995 the discovery of Lantiss work was an enabler to translate all of Lantiss Cupig writing style names in the key to genealogies to the present style of Cupig writing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543475135

Nussaalar Muriel M Amos

Nussaalar Muriel Amos is the graduate of University of Fairbanks with a Bachelor's degree in Education. She has taught elementary education for 33 years for BIA Mekoryuk Day School and for Lower Kuskokwim School District. She and her husband Nakaar Howard Amos published a Cup'ig Eskimo Dictionary in 2003, and are instrumental in reviving Cup'ig language and culture in the village of Mekoryuk.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Nunivak Genealogical Information

Photographs

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

There are many people to thank in making this book possible. First of all, thanks to Nunivak Island elders who have passed on and to those who are still alive who provided many genealogical information and to the anthropologist Margaret Lantis who was able to record relationships of the Nuniwarmiut people in her book Eskimo Children and Interpersonal Relationships: Nunivak Biographies and Genealogies before the Cup’ig people were able to write.

The photos in this book were collected from a variety of photographers. During the years when Nuniwarmiut