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The King Island Native Community (Inupiaq: Ugiuvaŋmiut) (consisting of what was once approximately 200 Iñupiat at its peak [1]) is federally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a community of Alaska Natives. The Iñupiat, former inhabitants of King Island, called themselves Aseuluk, 'people of the sea', or Ugiuvaŋmiut, 'people of ...
King Island, Alaska. The large boulders on the top of the island are barely visible through the fog. King island is a small island located about 40 miles (64 km) offshore, south of the village of Wales, Alaska and about 90 miles northwest of Nome. The island is about 1 mile (1.6 km) wide with steep slopes on all sides.
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.
A Summary of Kinship Forms and Terminologies Found Among the Inupiaq Speaking People of Alaska. 1950. Sprott, Julie E. Raising Young Children in an Alaskan Iñupiaq Village; The Family, Cultural, and Village Environment of Rearing. West, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2002. ISBN 0-313-01347-0; Chance, Norman A. The Eskimo of North Alaska.
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 ...
King Island is an island located west of Alaska in the Bering Sea, and is home to the ukivokmiut people. Pages in category "King island" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The Army conducted a 'force projection' training exercise on Shemya Island, a remote Alaskan island less than 300 miles from the Russian coast. ... People. Whitney Houston’s former bodyguard ...
Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove is a federally recognized tribe based in Belkofski, Alaska. [1] Population is found to be 845 people, 170 households, and 116 families in King Cove as of 2022. [ 2 ] The tribe is descended from both Unangax and non-Native people.