Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska TodayNamed 2001 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society The Yupiit in southwestern Alaska are members of the larger family of Inuit cultures. Including more than 20,000 individuals in seventy villages, the Yupiit continue to engage in traditional hunting activities, carefully following the seasonal shifts in the environment they know so well. During the twentieth century, especially after the construction of the trans Alaska oil pipeline,