Alaskan Natives A to Z
Alaskan Natives A to Z
Last updated January 14, 2015.Profiles and facts about Alaskan Native indigenous tribes, alphabetized from A to Z. As of January 2015, there are 225 Alaska Native tribal entities.
Click on an Alaskan tribal name to learn more facts about that tribe and find links to more articles related to that tribe.
Subcategories
- Alaskan Natives A-C
- Alaskan Natives D-J
- Alaskan Natives K-M
- Unrecognized Natives
- Alaskan Natives N-O
- Alaskan Natives P-S
- Alaskan Natives T-V
- Alaskan Natives W-Z
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King Cove is located on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, on a sand spit fronting Deer Passage and Deer Island. It is 18 miles southeast of Cold Bay and 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.
The area encompasses 25.3 sq. miles of land and 4.5 sq. miles of water.
Akiachak is a Yup’ik Eskimo village with a fishing and subsistence lifestyle. It is located 12 miles northeast of Bethel on the Kuskokwim River. The city was the first in Alaska to dissolve its city government in favor of Native village governance.
Akiak Native Community is located in the Bethel Census Area 42 air miles northeast of Bethel, on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Akiak is a Yup’ik Eskimo village with a reliance on subsistence and fishing activities. Poor fish catches since 1997 have significantly affected the community.