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Arctic Village (Vashrąįį K'ǫǫ [2] in Gwich'in) is an unincorporated Native American village [3] and a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2010 census , the population of the CDP was 152.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Alaska on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
A native of Arctic Village, Tritt was converted to Christianity by gospel preaching of Episcopal missionaries at Fort Yukon, about 100 miles (160 km) to the south. He returned with a Takudh-language Bible and sought to bring others into the Episcopal church. He became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1925.
Each village has unique dialect differences, idioms, and expressions. The Old Crow people in the northern Yukon have approximately the same dialect as those bands living in Venetie and Arctic Village, Alaska. Approximately 300 Alaskan Gwichʼin speak their language, according to the Alaska Native Language Center. [2]
Fort Yukon (Gwichyaa Zheh in Gwich'in) is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska, straddling the Arctic Circle. The population, predominantly Gwich'in Alaska Natives, was 428 at the 2020 census, down from 595 in 2000. Fort Yukon was the hometown of the late Alaska Congressman Don Young.
Sarah Agnes James (born 1946 [1] [2]) is a Neets'aii Gwich'in activist from Arctic Village, Alaska, USA, but was born in Fort Yukon "because that is where the hospital was.I grew up part of the time in Fort Yukon and Salmon River, but most of the time in Arctic Village, Alaska [3]."James is a board member of the International Indian Treaty Council.
Arctic Village Airport (IATA: ARC, ICAO: PARC, FAA LID: ARC) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.8 km) southwest of the central business district of Arctic Village, [1] a Native American village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is owned by the Venetie Tribal Government.
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