sentences:  During Christmas Yup'iks give gifts commemorating the departed.Despite the apparent Westernization of Alaskan Eskimos (Yup'ik and Iñupiaq), they have retained many of their traditional perceptions and responses to life situations.Since the 1960s there has been a dramatic rise in alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and associated violent behaviors, which have upset family and village life and resulted in physical and psychological injury, death, and imprisonment.