Release of Angalkut / Shamans in Yup’ik Oral Tradition, marking the first side-by-side bilingual book of its kind. Angalkut continues the long legacy of documenting traditional knowledge through elder collaboration.

Learning Maps for Math in a Cultural Context is established to provide cultural methods for math in region.

Ciutmuarluni (Striving Forward): Developing Resilient, Future-Ready Youth Program establishes funding—aimed at improving career readiness.

Nearly $800 in annual scholarships awarded marking the largest scholarship award year in CEC history.

CEC and broadens its Burial Assistance support to provide additional funding to Calista Shareholders and Descendants on behalf of Calista Corporation.

CEC expands its Scholarship Program to include Career and Technical Education (CTE) scholarships alongside academic awards.

Launch of Take Wing: Tengluni - Striving Forward, a college-readiness and youth-leadership program encouraging high-school students to pursue higher education while integrating Yuuyaraq values and community mentorship.

Launch of The Yup’ik Story Podcast Project, a CEC partnership sharing oral traditions and stories in the Yup’ik language.

(Listen here: The Yup’ik Story Podcast Project)

CEC begins development of a cultural Yuuyaraq curriculum, designed to integrate traditional values into modern education systems across the Calista Region.

The Calista Heritage Foundation and Calista Elders Council merge to form Calista Education & Culture (CEC), integrating scholarship, cultural preservation, and burial assistance programs under one mission.

Planning begins to merge the scholarship and cultural branches under one unified organization.

The David K. Nicolai Fund evolves into the Calista Heritage Foundation, broadening scholarship and community support.

Additional books published, including The Boundaries of the Earth and of the Mind and Yup’ik Masking Traditions, supported through National Science Foundation and NEH grants.

Publication of Yupiit Qanruyutait / Yup’ik Words of Wisdom, capturing ancestral teachings that continue to guide CEC’s mission.

Publication of Nunamta Ellamta-llu Ayuqucia / Our Land, Our Life, exploring the relationship between land, identity, and wellbeing.

The first Culture Camps are hosted for youth and new teachers —connecting generations through language, traditional skills, and the living values of Yuuyaraq.

Collaborations begin between Elders and linguists (including Marie Meade, Alice Rearden, and the late Mark John) to translate and publish traditional stories, laying the foundation for ongoing Yup’ik oral tradition publications.

Elders begin recording oral histories across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, sharing teachings on subsistence, spirituality, and Yuuyaraq.

The Calista Elders Council (CEC) is formed to document, preserve, and share Yup’ik, Cup’ik, and Athabascan traditional knowledge.

First scholarships awarded to Calista Shareholders and Descendants pursuing higher education. Early Elders gatherings emphasize the importance of pairing Western education with traditional values and language.