By Anatole Bogeyaktuk
Anatole Bogeyaktuk and Charlie Steve have been participants of the final new release of Yup’ik males to be raised within the qasgi (communal men’s condominium) and witness first-hand the dances and gift-giving that have been lots part of conventional lifestyles alongside the Bering Sea coast.
These Stebbins elders describe the complicated rituals of the dance competition in awesome element. Their thoughts have been recorded of their local Yup’ik language, then transcribed and translated into English through Sophie defend and Marie Meade and edited by means of Ann Fienup-Riordan. the result's a wealthy description of the drumming, dancing, gift-giving, and feasting that marked the wintry weather ceremonial season. The textual content is gifted in Yup’ik with facing-page English translations and is fantastically illustrated by means of James Barker and Suzi Jones, who photographed occasions in Stebbins in 1984.
The celebrations those Yup’ik elders narrate contain the Bladder pageant, the nice banquet for the useless, and the Messenger competition. This complicated sequence of rituals consists of people and animals, the residing and the useless. aggressive gift-giving, feasting and feats of power are all part of the religious lives of Yup’ik groups of western Alaska—part of the dwelling culture of Taprarmiuni Kassiyulriit: Stebbins Dance Festival.
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Cami-llu ernermi pillerkiurluteng, cami iralumi. Tauna piciryararteng nallairaqan pilaameng, tauna tua-i aperluku. Tua-i atauciunaurrluteng unakluku tauna. Ella assi’irqan kituriyuitait. Ellam tagaam auluk’larai. Ella una assiitaqan qavcin erenret utaqatuluki, assiqan-llu tua-i nutaan, nutaan tua-i aqvavkarluki, paqtelluki. Uksurrlainarmi. Ak’a tamaani ciuliaput kiagungraan-llu avani-llu yaaqvani Tununermi tamaani kiagungraan pilallruyaaqut. Maani tagaam kiagmi piyuirutut watua. Ernermi taumi pillerkiuraatni cali piarkauluteng.
We would be grateful if our story was heard by many people. We are not the only village that People from Stebbins and Kotlik watch the dancers during the 1984 potlatch. photo by james h. barker. Dance directors Elias Pete, Xavier Pete, and Benny Katcheak hold dance sticks and direct the dancing at the 1984 Stebbins potlatch. photo by suzi jones. nunat allat. Neq’aqaraqluku una pilaryaraat piciryarallerteng. Kiituani piyungengut ellait-llu. Kiituani unakaat. Imutun tupagtellriatun ayuqsaraput, tupagqelriatun.
Maani kiimta yuraq man’a atunritarput. Tamakut watua pegtengmikiit Charlie Anuaterkaq 4 Well, after being completely discontinued, the potlatch started again in 1970. We know that they had a real one back in 1971. Henry Bighead was still alive at the time. It started again at that time, in the winter of 1971. Henry Bighead told us in person that he wanted to try and celebrate the potlatch in its original form. He wanted to try. Someone whose identity we don’t know encouraged him. He told the people to go ahead with it only if they wanted to.