The mother and small business owner had searched online and in stores near her home in Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, but she could not find any books to teach her young children the Yup’ik language.

Nikki Corbett and her collaborator Katie O'Connor designed a coloring book for teaching the Yup'ik alphabet to young language learners. (Photo provided by Nikki Corbett) Nikki Corbett had a problem.

She searched in stores online but couldn't find any books to teach her kids Yupik, so she made her own. MARTIN: And there seems to be a market for it. Of the about 21,000 Alaskans who identify as ...

Katherine Rundell said children can handle hefty themes, but finds it “bad manners to offer a child a story and give them ...

Yup’ik is the most spoken Native language in Alaska, but finding Yup’ik books for young children can be almost impossible. These moms created... These Alaska moms couldn’t find a Yup’ik ...

Yup’ik is the most spoken Native language in Alaska, but finding Yup’ik books for young children can be almost impossible.