Sirenik Eskimos - Present and Near Past

Present and Near Past

Sireniki faces unemployment, alcoholism, poverty. Supply of the settlement has problems. There is scarcity of medications.

Some traditional economic skills have been preserved to the best amount in Sireniki (compared to other Asiatic Eskimo settlements), for example the skills to manufacture the large type of skin boats, similar to those called angyapik among Siberian Yupik, and umiak among many other Eskimo peoples.

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