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Alaska Native Population at the Time of Contact with Europeans Alaska Native Population at the Time of Contact with Europeans Barrow Wainwright Atqasuk Nuiqsut Kaktovik Migration into the Americas came through Alaska Coastal North Alaska 2,000 Point Lay Ice Age Shoreline Greenland Interior North Alaska Ice Sheet Time of Contact Point Hope 1,500 Arctic Village Unangan/Aleut 1750-1780 Anaktuvuk Pass Kivalina Cordilleran Laurentide Ice Sheet Ice Sheet Inupiat Noatak Alutiiq/Sugpiaq 1760-1790 10,000 Kotzebue Sound Gwich’in Ambler 4,000 Kiana Venetie1,500 Kotzebue Kobuk Chalkyitsik Noorvik Shungnak Bettles Fort Yukon Shishmaref Selawik Alatna Beaver Yupiit 1780-1840 Diomede Allakaket Deering Koyukon Birch Creek Buckland Wales 2,000 Circle Stevens Village Hughes Bering Straits Brevig Mission Tlingit 1785-1800 1,000 Teller Huslia King Island Seward Peninsula Rampart Tanana Han 1,500 Tanana 500 Eagle Manley Hot Springs 300 Haida 1785-1800 White Mountain Koyuk Koyukuk Fairbanks Elim Gambell Nome Galena Golovin Salcha Savoonga Nulato Shaktoolik Athabascan Nenana Kaltag Healy Lake Eyak 1790s 11,000 Delta Junction St. Lawrence Island Unalakleet Tanacross Norton 300 1,500 Stebbins Upper Tanacross Tetlin St. Michael Sound Athabascan 1800-1870 Northway Kotlik 1,500 Holikachuk Kuskokwim Cantwell Mentasta Lake Telida Upper Emmonak 500 200 Ahtna Alakanuk Grayling Takotna Nikolai Slana Tanana Nunam Iqua McGrath 1,000 Chistochina Nabesna 200 Inupiat 1850-1870 Anvik Shageluk Gakona Mountain Village Deg Hit’an Scammon Bay St. Mary’s Glennallen Pitkas Point Holy Cross Talkeetna Pilot Station Marshall 1,500 Copper Center Russian Mission Hooper Bay Chevak Crooked Creek Stony River Chickaloon Group Name Region Kalskag Aniak Sleetmute Dena’ina Chitna Population Chuathbaluk Wasilla Palmer Yupiit Atmautluak Akiachak 3,000 Population Newtok Valdez Nunapitchuk Bethel Tuluksak Lime Village Anchorage Tatitlek 18,000 Tununak Akiak Toksook Bay Kasigluk Tyonek Kwethluk Mekoryuk Napakiak Skagway Place Location Place Name Nightmute Whittier Napaskiak Oscarville Cordova Eyak Chefornak Tuntutuliak Kenai Klukwan Note: Places shown are for reference purposes, not necessarily settled during pre-contact period Eek Chenega Haines Yakutat Nunivak Island Kipnuk Kongiganak Prince William Sound Kwigillingok Bristol Bay Seward 500 Nondalton Ninilchik 1,500-2,000 Sources Quinhagak 3,000 Iliamna Juneau Yukon/Kuskokwim Koliganek Lower Tlingit Langdon, Steve (2002). The Native People of Alaska. Anchorage: Greatland Graphics Newhalen Gustavus Rivers and Delta New Stuyahok Homer Aleknagik Seldovia Kenai Peninsula 15,000 Goodnews Bay Hoonah Ekwok Igiugig Kokhanok Port Graham 13,000 Twin Hills Nanwalek 500 Tenakee Springs Platinum Togiak Dillingham Levelock Pelican Manokotak Angoon Clark’s Point Naknek King Salmon South Naknek Petersburg Kake Sitka Egegik Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Wrangell St. Paul Afognak Ouzinkie Port Lions 15,000-18,500 Pilot Point Alaska Peninsula St. George Kodiak Arctic Slope Regional Corporation 1,000 Karluk Ketchikan Ugashik Larsen Bay Klawock Kasaan Craig Metlakatla Old Harbor Kodiak Archipeligo Hydaburg Port Heiden Akhiok 12,000-15,000 NANA Regional Corporation Haida Chignik Lagoon Chignik Lake Chignik 1,800 Nelson Lagoon Doyon, Limited Bering Straits Unangan/Aleut Perryville Native Corporation 15,000-18,000 Cold Bay Sand Point King Cove False Pass Ahtna, Incorporated Akutan Calista Corporation Cook Inlet Unalaska Region, Incorporated Chugach Alaska Corporation Adak Atka Nikolski Bristol Bay Native Corporation Sealaska Corporation Koniag, Incorporated The Aleut Corporation Alaska Native Regional Corporations Note: Time of Contact refers to the earliest time a group had “significant direct interaction” with Europeans (Langdon) Created by: Eric Sandberg, Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section, February 2013.
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