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Kaktovik first appeared on the 1950 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village. In 1960 it returned as Barter Island. In 1970, the name of Kaktovik was restored and it was formally incorporated in 1971. As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 239 people living in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 88.7% Native American, 10.0% ...
Kaktovik Village is headquartered in the city of Kaktovik in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. [2] As of 2005, the tribe had 231 enrolled citizens. [3]American institutions hold 700 Native American remains of interest to Kaktovik Village. 23 remains and 4,900 funerary objects have been repatriated to the tribe. 21 remains were repatriated by the U.S. Department of the Interior and two remains ...
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]
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Location of Kaktovik, Alaska A polar bear near Kaktovik. Until the late 19th century, Barter Island was a major trade center for the Inupiat people and was especially important as a bartering place for Inupiat from Alaska and Inuit from Canada, hence its name. At one time before about 1900, there had been a large whaling village on Barter ...
KAKTOVIK, Alaska (AP) — Early last summer, George Kaleak, a whaling captain in the tiny Alaska Native village of Kaktovik, on an island in the Arctic Ocean just off the state’s northern coast, pinned a flyer to the blue, ribbon-lined bulletin board in the community center. “Attention residents,” it read.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Kaktovik in Alaska, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Sunday.
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