 Preacher(subj)

'The preacher bit the dog'

Small changes have been made towards teaching Yupʼik to the native Alaskan Yupʼiks.In 1972, the Alaska State Legislature passed legislation mandating that if "a [school is attended] by at least 15 pupils whose primary language is other than English, [then the school] shall have at least one teacher who is fluent in the native language".Then, during the mid-1970s, educational programs emerged in order to revive and sustain the Yupʼik language