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In 1994, the Afognak Native Corporation began to build tourism by involving visitors in the archaeological excavation of the old Afognak island village of Ag’waneq in a program called "Dig Afognak". In 1998 the Bureau of Indian Affairs issued a grant to fund the collection and preservation of historic and prehistoric data from the dig and ...
Afognak (Alutiiq: Agw’aneq; [1] Russian: Афогнак [2]) is an island in the Kodiak Archipelago 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Kodiak Island in the U.S. state of Alaska.It is 43 miles (69 km) long from east to west and 23 miles (37 km) wide from north to south and has a land area of 1,812.58 km 2 (699.84 sq mi), making it the 18th largest island in the United States.
Afognak (/ ə ˈ f ɒ ɡ n æ k /; also Agw'aneq [1] in Alutiiq was an Alutiiq village on the island of Afognak in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States. It was located on Afognak Bay on the southwest coast of the island, three miles north of Kodiak Island. [2] The site is now within the CDP of Aleneva.
The Afognak Native Corporation is a wealthy corporation and was listed in the Top 100 Contractors of the Federal Government in 2010. Coming in at No. 79, The Afognak Native Corporation's contracts were $749,557,576.49. [8] Afognak Native Corporation entities also received NASA Small Business Contractor of the Year Award in 2013.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Alaska Communications (NAS: ALSK) and Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA) are improving healthcare for residents on the nation's second-largest island ...
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 ...
The Alaska Native village of Anaktuvuk Pass is completely surrounded by Gates of the Arctic. “It was settled by the Nunamiut people, and they were literally the last migratory people in North ...
Afognak: Kodiak Island Borough ~5,500 B.C.E. [1] March 27, 1964 A native Alutiiq village, first colonized by Russia in 1784, the community never recovered from the 1964 Good Friday earthquake. Akulurak: Kusilvak Census Area: 62 ° 33' 8" N, 164 ° 33' 10" W An Alaska Native village which has been largely abandoned due to runoff from a nearby ...