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Salmon drying. Alutiiq village, Old Harbor, Kodiak Island.Photographed by N. B. Miller, 1889. The Alutiiq (pronounced / ə ˈ l uː t ɪ k / ə-LOO-tik in English; from Promyshlenniki Russian Алеутъ, "Aleut"; [1] [2] [3] plural often "Alutiit"), also called by their ancestral name Sugpiaq (/ ˈ s ʊ ɡ ˌ b j ɑː k / SUUG-byahk or / ˈ s ʊ ɡ p i ˌ æ k / SUUG-pee-AK; plural often ...
Native artifacts from the Kodiak Islands, engraving c. 1805 from a Russian journal Location of Three Saints Bay and St. Paul on Kodiak in 1805 Chart including Kodiak Island. Kodiak is the ancestral land of the Sugpiaq, an Alutiiq nation of Native Americans. The original inhabitants subsisted by hunting marine mammals, fishing, and gathering.
The Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) was created in 1915. [30] Also in 1915, the Alaska Territorial legislature passed a law allowing Alaskan Natives the right to vote – but on the condition that they give up their cultural customs and traditions. [31] The Indian Citizenship Act, passed in 1924, gave all Native Americans United States ...
Inhabited by Alutiiq natives for over 7,000 years, Kodiak was settled in 1792 by subjects of the Russian crown. Originally named Paul's Harbor , it was the capital of Russian Alaska . Russian harvesting of the area's sea otter pelts led to the near extinction of the animal in the following century and led to wars with and enslavement of the ...
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 explains how these Alaska Native villages came to be tracked this way. This version was updated based on Federal Register , Volume 87, dated January 28, 2022 (87 FR 4638), [ 1 ] when the number of Alaskan Native tribes entities totaled 231.
About Kodiak Area Native Association. Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA) is a non-profit corporation providing health and social services for the Alaska Natives of the Koniag region. It ...
Kodiak Island Borough – from the Alutiiq phrase qikertaq, meaning "island". Shared with the island of Kodiak, and its largest city Kodiak. Matanuska-Susitna Borough; The City and Borough of Sitka – from the Tlingit phrase shee at'iká, meaning "people on the outside of Baranof Island".
A pair of Kodiak bears – a unique subspecies of the brown bear native to Alaska – were discovered wandering through a rural area of the Florida Panhandle. A passerby spotted the cubs and ...