Update on the Old Testament (Yup’ik Old Testament Translation Project)

The translation of the books of the Bible into new Yup’ik (that is, the new orthography of modern Yup’ik) has been of much interest to those from the Yukon-Kuskokwim region. (see Small Business in Western Alaska)
by Rev. Peter Green
12 December 2008, The Delta Discovery
The Yup’ik Old Testament Translation Project (YOTTP) is the work of the [...]

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[trash] Plastic bags banished from Old Crow

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/07/22/oldcrow-bags.html?ref=rss
People in the isolated Gwich’in community of Old Crow, Yukon, are using
plastic bags – more precisely, the absence of them – to help make a
stand against oil drilling in Alaska.

[environmental change, tundra] SNRAS scientists’ work featured on [...]

Inuktitut-based Bible

The Yup’ik Eskimo language Bible (sponsored by the Alaska Moravian Church) is also getting a major revision. It is written in the Roman or Latin script. See previous post

Yup’ik Bible -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/11/ regional-bookstore-planning/

This version described in this newstory,

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/17/moravian-bible.html

is written in the Inuit script, Inuktitut
The Inuktitut syllabary is actually only used in Canada, especially [...]

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In 2004 I set up this discussion page linked from our regular webpage that I set up through the ISP. The QuickTopic is a wonderfully easier way to update information than a regular webpage or even a blog.—

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Since 1943, the Moravian Book Store has served the peoples of the Yukon Kuskokwim [...]