Marie (Nick) Arnaq Meade (born 1947) is a Yup'ik professor in the humanities and also a Yup'ik tradition bearer.
 Meade's Yup'ik name is Arnaq which means "woman."
 She also works and travels with the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers.
 Meade is also part of the Nunamta Yup'ik Dance Group.
 Meade has been documenting the cultural knowledge of Yup'ik elders, including the values, language and beliefs of the Yup'ik people for over twenty years.
 She is currently an instructor at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Yup'ik masks (Yup'ik "kegginaquq" "kegginaquk" "kegginaqut" and "nepcetaq" "nepcetat" ; in the Lower Yukon dialects "avangcaq" "avangcak" "avangcat" ; in Nunivak Cup'ig dialect "agayu") are expressive shamanic ritual masks made by the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska.
 Also known as Cup'ik masks for the Chevak Cup'ik dialect speaking Eskimos of Chevak and Cup'ig masks for the Nunivak Cup'ig dialect speaking Eskimos of Nunivak Island.
 One of their most popular forms of the Alaska Native art are masks.
 The Yup'ik masks vary enormously but are characterised by great invention.
 They are typically made of wood, and painted with few colors.
 The Yup'ik masks were carved by men or women, but mainly were carved by the men.
 The shamans ("angalkuq") were the ones that told the carvers how to make the masks.
 Yup'ik masks could be small three-inch finger masks or maskettes (or "dance fans", in the Lower Yukon Yup'ik dialects "tegumiaq" "tegumiak" "tegumiat" ), but also ten-kilo masks hung from the ceiling or carried by several people.
 These masks are used to bring the person wearing it luck and good fortune in hunts.
 Over the long winter darkness dances and storytelling took place in the qasgiq using these masks.
 They most often create masks for ceremonies but the masks are traditionally destroyed after being used.
 After Christian contact in the late nineteenth century, masked dancing was suppressed, and today it is not practiced as it was before in the Yup'ik villages.
The Yup'ik or Yupiaq (sg & pl) and Yupiit or Yupiat (pl), also Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Central Yup'ik, Alaskan Yup'ik (own name "Yup'ik" "Yupiik" "Yupiit" ), are an Eskimo people of western and southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards along the coast of the Bering Sea on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (including living on Nelson and Nunivak Islands) and along the northern coast of Bristol Bay as far east as Nushagak Bay and the northern Alaska Peninsula at Naknek River and Egegik Bay.
 They are also known as Cup'ik by the Chevak Cup'ik dialect-speaking Eskimos of Chevak and Cup'ig for the Nunivak Cup'ig dialect-speaking Eskimo of Nunivak Island.
This is a list of visual artists who are Indigenous peoples of the Americas, categorized by primary media.
 Mestizo and Métis artists whose indigenous descent is integral to their art are included, as are Siberian Yup'ik artists due to their cultural commonalities with Alaskan Yup'ik people.
 This list includes notable visual artists who are Inuit people, Alaskan Natives, Siberian Yup'ik, American Indians, First Nations, Métis, Mestizos, and indigenous peoples of Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
 Indigenous identity is a complex and contested issue and differs from country to country in the Americas.
 Inclusion to this list is based on legal membership to an indigenous community, when applicable, or recognition by the relevant indigenous community/communities of the individual as a member of that community.
The Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center (YPCC), also known as "Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center and Museum", formerly known as the "Yup'ik Museum, Library, and Multipurpose Cultural Center" (or "Facility"), is a non-profit cultural center of the Yup'ik (and sometimes Alaskan Athabaskan of the region) culture centrally located in Bethel, Alaska near the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Kuskokwim Campus and city offices.
 The center is a unique facility that combines a museum, a library, and multi-purpose cultural activity center including performing arts space, for cultural gatherings, feasts, celebrations, meetings and classes.
 and that celebrates the Yup'ik culture and serves as a regional cultural center for Southwest Alaska.
 The name of "Yupiit Piciryarait" means "Yup'iks' customs" in Yup'ik language and derived from "piciryaraq" meaning "manner; custom; habit; tradition; way of life" Construction of this cultural facility was completed in 1995, funded through a State appropriation of federal funds.
 Total cost for construction was $6.15 million.
 The center was jointly sponsored by the Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and at the present the center operated by the UAF's Kuskokwim Campus, AVCP and City of Bethel.
 The building houses three community resources: the Consortium Library, the Yup'ik Museum, and the Multi-purpose room or auditorium.
 The mission of the center is promote, preserve and develop the traditions of the Yup'ik through traditional and non-traditional art forms of the Alaska Native art, including arts and crafts, performance arts, education, and Yup'ik language.
 The center also supports local artists and entrepreneurs.
Uksuum Cauyai: Drums of Winter, also referred to only as "Drums of Winter," is an 1988 ethnographic documentary on the culture of the Yup'ik people in Emmonak, a village on the shore of the Bering Sea.
 The film follows the Yup'ik people in an attempt to capture what remains of their traditional dances and the potlatchceremony.
  There is an atmosphere of a people losing touch with it's traditions after many years of religious and government intervention.
 The film was produced through a "community-collaborative process" in which the subjects of the documentary had significant input as to the film's content and presentation.
 As a result, the film features conversations with individual Yup'ik in place of "the voice-over commentary by an unseen narrator that destroys the cinematic integrity of so many so-called ethnographic films".
Yup'ik cuisine ("Yupiit neqait" in Yup'ik language, literally "Yup'iks' foods" or "Yup'iks' fishes") refers to the Eskimo style traditional subsistence food and cuisine of the Yup'ik people from the western and southwestern Alaska.
 Also known as Cup'ik cuisine for the Chevak Cup'ik dialect speaking Eskimos of Chevak and Cup'ig cuisine for the Nunivak Cup'ig dialect speaking Eskimos of Nunivak Island.
 This cuisine is traditionally based on meat from fish, birds, sea and land mammals, and normally contains high levels of protein.
 Subsistence foods are generally considered by many to be nutritionally superior superfoods.
 Yup’ik diet is different from Alaskan Inupiat, Canadian Inuit, and Greenlandic diets.
 Fish as food (especially Salmonidae species, such as salmon and whitefish) are primary food for Yup'ik Eskimos.
 Both food and fish called "neqa" in Yup'ik.
 Food preparation techniques are fermentation and cooking, also uncooked raw.
 Cooking methods are baking, roasting, barbecuing, frying, smoking, boiling, and steaming.
 Food preservation methods are mostly drying and less often frozen.
 Dried fish is usually eaten with seal oil.
 The ulu or fan-shaped knife used for cutting up fish, meat, food, and such.
Yup'ik doll (Yup'ik "yugaq" "yugak" "yugat" or "yuguaq", "irniaruaq", "irnianguaq", "inuguaq"; also, "yunguaq" in Unaliq-Pastuliq dialect, "sugaq", "sugaruaq", "suguaq" in Bristol Bay dialect, "cugaq", "cugaruaq" in Hooper Bay-Chevak dialect, "cuucunguar" in Nunivak dialect) is a traditional Eskimo style doll and figurine form made in the southwestern Alaska by Yup'ik people.
 Also known as Cup'ik doll for the Chevak Cup'ik dialect speaking Eskimos of Chevak and Cup'ig doll for the Nunivak Cup'ig dialect speaking Eskimos of Nunivak Island.
 Typically, Yup'ik dolls are dressed in traditional Eskimo style Yup'ik clothing (as "irniaruam atkua" "doll parka"), intended to protect the wearer from cold weather, and are often made from traditional materials obtained through food gathering.
 Play dolls from the Yup'ik area were made of wood, bone, or walrus ivory and measured from one to twelve inches in height or more.
 Male and female dolls were often distinguished anatomically and can be told apart by the addition of ivory labrets for males and chin tattooing for females.
 The information about play dolls within Alaska Native cultures is sporadic.
 As is so often the case in early museum collections, it is difficult to distinguish dolls made for play from those made for ritual.
 There were always five dolls making up a family: a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, and a baby.
 Some human figurines were used by shamans.
Yup'ik dancing (or dance) or Yuraq, also Yuraqing (Yup'ik "yuraq" /juʁaq/ "yurak" "yurat" ) is a traditional Eskimo style dancing form usually performed to songs in Yup'ik, with dances choreographed for specific songs which the Yup'ik people of southwestern Alaska.
 Also known as Cup'ik dance for the Chevak Cup'ik dialect speaking Eskimos of Chevak and Cup'ig dance for the Nunivak Cup'ig dialect speaking Eskimos of Nunivak Island.
 Yup'ik dancing is set up in a very specific and cultural format.
 Typically, the men are in the front, kneeling and the women stand in the back.
 The drummers are in the very back of the dance group.
 Dance is the heart of Yup’ik spiritual and social life.
 Every song has a story behind it and some songs is either about hunting or berry picking.
 Some songs could be about sports or other things that don't really relate to hunting.
 Traditional dancing in the qasgiq is a communal activity in Yup’ik tradition.
 The mask ("kegginaquq") was a central element in Yup'ik ceremonial dancing.
The November 2011 Bering Sea cyclone was one of the most powerful extratropical cyclones to affect Alaska on record.
 On November 8, the National Weather Service (NWS) began issuing severe weather warnings, saying that this was a near-record (or record) storm in the Bering Sea.
 It rapidly deepened from 973 mb to 948 mb in just 24 hours before bottoming out at 943 mbar (hPa; 27.85 inHg), roughly comparable to a Category 3 or 4 hurricane.
 The storm had been deemed life-threatening by many people.
 The storm had a forward speed of at least 60 mph before it had reached Alaska.
 The storm began affecting Alaska in the late hours of November 8, 2011.
 The highest gust recorded was 93 mph on Little Diomede Island.
 One person has been reported missing after being swept into the Bering Sea.

Question: Uksuum Cauyai: Drums of Winter, also referred to only as "Drums of Winter," released in which year, is an ethnographic documentary on the culture of the Yup'ik people in Emmonak, a village on the shore of the Bering Sea?
Answer: 1988