Challenges and joys of crafting a Yu’pik ballot

The state’s Division of Elections is required to translate ballots and create an elections glossary in six dialects of Yu’pik and also Gwich’in. Those are the terms of a lawsuit settled last year by Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott. But as Alaska Public Media’s Anne Hillman learned – that process isn’t easy.
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A group of Yup’ik translators meet to develop a glossary of election terms in Yup’ik. (Hillman/KSKA)Think about these words – candi