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A- Alaska Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Afognak. A Kaniagmiut settlement consisting of 3
villages on Afognak id., s. of Cook inlet, Alaska (Bruce, Alaska, map, 1895).
Pop. 339 in 1880, 409 in 1890, 307 in 1900.
Agiukchuk. A Kaialigamiut village opposite the s. shore
of Nelson id., Alas ka; pop. 35 in 1880, 81 in 1890.
Agivavik. A Nushagagmiut village on Nushagak r.,
Alaska; pop. 52 in 1880, 30 in 1890.
Agomekelenanak. An Eskimo village in the Kuskokwim
district, Alaska. Pop. 15 in 1890.
Agulakpak. An Eskimo village near Kuskokwim r., Alaska.
Pop. 19 in 1890.
Aguliak. A Kuskwogmiut village on the E. shore of
Kuskokwim bay, Alaska. Pop. 120 in 1880, 94 in 1890.
Agulok. A former Aleut village on Unalaska id., Alaska.
Coxe, Russ. Diseov., 159, 1787.
Agulukpuk. An Eskimo village in the Nushagak district,
Alaska; pop. 22 in 1890.
Agumak. A Kuskwogmiut village in Alaska; pop. 41 in 1890.
11th Census, Alaska, 164, 1893.
Aiacheruk. A Kaviagmiut Eskimo village near C. Nome,
Alaska; pop. 60 in 1880.
Aiaktalik. A Kaniagmiut village on one of the Goose
ids. near Kodiak, Alas ka; pop. 101 in 1880, 106 in 1890.
Aimgua. A former Chnagmiut village near the mouth of
Yukon r., Alaska. Zagoskin in Nouv. Ann. Voy., 5th s., xxi, map, 1850.
Aivilik (having walrus) . An Eskimo village on Repulse
bay, Franklin dist., Brit. Col., the principal winter settlement of the
Aivilirmiut. Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., 449, 1888.
Aivilirmiut (people of the walrus place). A Central
Eskimo tribe on the N. shores of Hudson bay from Chesterfield inlet to Fox
channel, among whom Rae sojourned in 1846-47, C. F. Hall in 1864-69, and
Schwatka in 1877-79. They kill deer, muskoxen, seal, walrus, trout, and salmon,
caching a part of the meat and blubber, which before winter they bring to one of
their central settlements. Their chief villages are Akudlit, Avilik, Iglulik,
Maluksilak, Nuvung, Pikuliak, Ugluriak, Ukusiksalik; summer villages are
Inugsulik, Kariak, Naujan, Pitiktaujaug. Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., 445,
1888.
Aiwanat (Aiwánat,
pi. of Aiwan}. The Chukchi name for the Yuit Eskimo re siding at and near the
vicinity of Indian point, N. E. Siberia, as distinguished from those who speak
the dialect of the village of Nabukak on East cape and that of Cherinak near C.
Ulakhpen. Bogoras, Chukchee, 20, 1904.
Akak. An Eskimo settlement in the Nushagak district,
Alaska, of only 9 people in 1890.
Akchadak-kochkond. A coast village of the Malemiut in
Alaska. Zagoskin in Nouv. Ann. Voy., 5th s., xxi, map, 1850.
Akgulurigiglak. An Eskimo village in the Nushagak
district, Alaska; pop. 61 in 1890. Eleventh Census, Alaska, 164, 1893.
Akhiok. A Kaniagmiut village on Alitak bay, Kodiak id.,
Alaska; pop. 114 in 1880, slightly more than 100 in 1900.
Akiachak. A Kuskwogmiut village on Kuskokwim r.,
Alaska; pop. 43 in 1890, 165 in 1900.
Aklut (provisions). A Kuskwogmiut village on Kuskokwim
r. at the mouth of the Eek, Alaska; pop. 162 in 1880, 106 in 1890.
Akmiut. A Kuskwogmiut village on Kuskokwim r., 10 in.
above Kolmakof, Alaska.
Akpaliut. A Kaviagmiut village w. of Golofnin bay, on
Norton sd., Alaska; possibly the same as Chiukak.
Akuliukpak (many provisions). A Nushagagmiut Eskimo
settlement on Pamiek lake, Alaska; pop. 83 in 1880.
Akulivikchuk. A Nushagagmiut village on Nushagak r.,
Alaska; pop. 72 in 1880.
Akun (distant). A former Aleut village on a small
island of the same name between Unalaska and Unimak, Aleutian group, Alaska;
pop. 55 in 1880. The inhabitants have deserted it for Akutan.
Akutan. An Aleut village on a small island of the same
name adjacent to Unalaska, Alaska; pop. 65 in 1880, 80 in 1890.
Akvetskoe (lake town). A summer village of the Huna
division of the Koluschan family, on Lituya bay, Alaska; pop. 200 in 1835.
Veniaminoff, Zapiski, II, pt. 3, 29, 1840.
Alaganik. An Ahtena and Ugalakmiut village near the
mouth of Copper r., Alaska. Pop. in 1880, with Eyak, 117; in 1890, 48.
Serebrenikof visited the village in 1848, but Allen in 1885 found it on what he
supposed to be a new site.
Aleksashkina. A former Kaniagmiut Eskimo settlement on
Wood id. in St. Paul harbor, Kodiak id., Alaska
Alexandrovsk. A Kaniagmiut village and trading post on
Graham harbor, Alaska; pop. 88 in 1880, 107 in 1890.
Alexeief. A Chnagmiut village in the Yukon delta, Alaska;
pop. 16 in 1880.
Amitok (narrow). A winter settlement of the Amitormiut
on the E. coast of Melville peninsula.
Amitormiut (inhabitants of the narrow place. Boas).
An Eskimo tribe on the E. coast of Melville peninsula. Their principal village
is Amitok, from which they take their name. Gilder, Schwatka's Search, 181,
1881.
Anagnak. An Eskimo village of the Nushegagmiut on Wood
r., Alaska; pop. 87 in 1880. Nelson in 18th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1899.
Anagok. An Eskimo village of the Kuskwogmiut tribe,
Alaska, on the coast near C. Avinof; pop. 75 in 1880.
Anchguhlsu (town they abandoned). The chief town of the
Auk, situated opposite the N. end of Douglas id., Alaska. Swanton, field
notes, 1904.
Andreafski. A Chnagmiut village on the N. bank of the
Yukon, Alaska, 5 in. above the former redoubt of that name, for the murder of
whose inmates in 1855 the Russians wreaked such vengeance that the river natives
never again molested the whites. Pop. 14 in 1880; 10 in 1890.
Anelo. A Kaviagmiut Eskimo settlement at Port Clarence,
Alaska. 11th Census, Alaska, 162, 1893.
Anemuk. An Unaligmiut Eskimo village on Anvik r., Alaska.
Sen. Ex. Doc. 12, 42d Cong., 1st sess., 25, 1871.
Angnovchak. An Eskimo village in the Nushagak district,
Alaska; pop. 16 in 1890.
Angun. A Hutsnuwu village N. of Hood bay, Admiralty
id., Alaska; pop. 420 in 1880. The greater part of the people have since removed
to Killisnoo, a fishing village established by the whites.
Anilukhtakpak. A Kaiyuhkhotana village on Innoko r.,
Alaska; pop. 170 in 1844.
Aniyak. A village of the Nunatogmiut Eskimo on the
Arctic; coast just x. of Kotzebue sd., Alaska; pop. 25 in 1880.
Ankachagmiut. A local subdivision of the Chnagmiut
Eskimo living on Yukon r. above Andreafski, Alaska.
Ankachak. A Chnagmiut village, the home of the
Ankachagmiut, on the right bank of the lower Yukon, Alaska; per haps identical
with Kenunimik.
Ankakehittan ( people of the house in the middle of the
valley ). A Koluschan division at Killisnoo, Alaska, belonging to the Raven
clan; they are said to have separated from the Deshitan on account of some
domestic trouble.
Anlik. A Kaviagmiut village on Golofnin bay, Alaska.
Annugamok. A Nushagagmiut village on an E. tributary of
Nushagak r., Alaska; pop. 214 in 1880.
Anovok. A Magemiut Eskimo village on a small river x.
of Kuskokwim bay, Alaska; pop. 15 in 1890.
Anvik. A Kaiyuhkhotana village at the junction of Anvik
and Yukon rs., Alaska. Pop. in 1844, 120; in 1880, 95; in 1890, 100 natives and
91 whites; in 1900, 166. An Episcopal mission and school were established there
in 1887.
Apahiachak. An Eskimo village in the Kuskokwim
district, Alaska; pop. 91 in 1890.
Apokak. A Kuskwogmiut Eskimo village near the mouth of
Kuskokwim r., Alaska; pop. 94 in 1880, 210 in 1890.
Apoon. A Chnagmiut village on Apoon pass, the N. mouth
of Yukon r., Alaska. .
Ariswaniski. A Chnagmiut village on the right bank of
the lower Yukon, Alaska. Coast Surv. map, 1899.
Arlagnuk. An Iglulirmiut Eskimo village near Melville pen., on Iglulik id.,
lat. 69º 11′
33′′. Parry, Second Voy., 355, 1824.
Arliaktung. An Eskimo village of the Akudnirmiut, N. of Home bay, E. Baffin
land. Boas in Deutsch. Geog. Blätt., iii,
34, 1885.
Artelnof. A former Aleut village and Russian post on
Akun id., Alaska; pop. 32 in 1834.
Ashivak. A Kaniagmiut village near C. Douglas, Alaska;
pop. 46 in 1880. Petroff, 10th Census, Alaska, 28, 1884.
Askinuk. A Kaialigmiut Eskimo village on Hooper bay,
near C. Romanzoff, Alaska; pop. 175 in 1880, 138 in 1890.
Asko. An Ikogmiut village on the right bank of the Yukon,
below Anvik, Alaska; pop. 30 in 1880.
Asko. An Ikogmiut village on the right bank of the Yukon,
below Anvik, Alaska; pop. 30 in 1880.
Atchaluk. An Eskimo village in the Kuskokwim district,
Alaska; pop. 39 in 1890.
Atkigyin. A former Aleut village on Agattu id., Alaska,
one of the Near id. group of the Aleutians, now uninhabited.
Atkulik. A former Aleut village on Agattu id., Alaska, one
of the Near id. group of the Aleutians, now uninhabited.
Atnik. A village of the Sidarumiut Eskimo near Pt
Belcher, Alaska; pop. 34 in 1890.
Atnuk. An Eskimo village of the Kaviagmiut tribe at Darby
cape, Alaska; pop. 20 in 1880, 34 in 1890.
Attenmiut. A division of the Malemiut Eskimo whose
chief village is Atten, near the source of Buckland r., Alaska.
Attenok. A Sidarumiut Eskimo village on Seahorse ids.,
Alaska.
Auk. A Koluschan tribe on Stephens passage, Douglas and
Admiralty ids., Alaska; pop. 640 in 1880-81, 279 in 1890. Their chief town was
called Anchguhlsu. The other settlements mentioned by Petroff were probably
summer camps. One such camp was Tsantikihin, now called Juneau. The social
divisions are Tlenedi and Wushketan. (J. R. S. )
Aukardneling. A village of the Talirpingmiut division
of the Okomiut Eskimo on the w. side of Cumberland sd.
Aukpatuk (red). A Suhinimiut Eskimo village on Ungava
bay, Labrador. Hind, Lab. Pen., II, map, 1863.
Avatanak. An Aleut village on a small island of the
same name, between Unalaska and Unimak ids., Alaska; pop. 19 in 1880.
Avaudjelling. A summer settlement of Akudnirmiut Eskimo
at the N. end of Home bay, Baffin land. Boas in 6th Rep. B. A. E., map, 1888.
Avnulik. A Chnagmiut village in the Yukon district,
Alaska; pop. 30 in 1890.
Aziagmiut. The inhabitants of Sledge or Aziak id.,
Alaska, a subdivision of the Kaviagmiut, numbering 67 in 1890. 11th Census,
Alaska, 154, 1893.
Aziak. The village of the Aziagmiut on Sledge id., near C.
Nome, Alaska; pop. 50 in 1880. Petroff, 10th Census, Alaska, 11, 1884.
Aziavik. A town of the Chingigmiut Eskimo near C. Peirce,
Alaska; pop. 90 in 1890.
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