The company’s Yup’ik translations turned out to be a mish-mash of phrases lifted from an 80-year-old book of Russian language and folklore.
"Central Yup'ik"
FEMA sent ‘unintelligible’ disaster relief information to Alaska Native people after Typhoon Merbok
The translated documents were supposed to offer information on how to apply for financial assistance.
Through language, a Yup’ik teacher passes on a way of life
As a child, Alice Fitka was punished for speaking her Yup’ik language in school. Since then, she’s spent decades teaching it in the Western Alaska village of Tuntutuliak.