Aleknagik, Alaska

• Younger generation raises protest voices
  

  Apayo Moore, left, leads chants at the 'Rally for Bristol Bay' in downtown Anchorage on Feb.

• Younger generation protest Pebble's water-use violations
  

  Verner Wilson and Apayo Moore, with megaphones, organized the "Rally for Bristol Bay" in response water-use violations by the Pebble Partnership.

• Traditional creativity
  

  Vendors at the Native Art Market pay $125 for a table, less if they are over 65.

• Troopers rescue three boaters from Nushagak mud flats
  

  Three boaters whose engine went out spent a night drifting in Nushagak Bay before being rescued uninjured, according to Alaska State Troopers.

City Description

Aleknagik (uh-LECK-nuh-gik) (Alaqnaqiq in Central Yup'ik) is a second class city in the Dillingham Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 221 at the 2000 census. Aleknagik is located at 59°16′42″N 158°37′23″W / 59.27833°N 158.62306°W / 59.27833; -158.62306 (59.278362, -158.622928) (Sec. 31, T010S, R055W, Seward Meridian). Aleknagik is located in the Bristol Bay Recording District. Aleknagik is located at the head of Wood River on the southeast end of Lake Aleknagik, 16 miles northwest of Dillingham. Aleknagik is named after Aleknagik Lake. One bit of lore would have people believe that Aleknagik means "wrong way home" in Yupik. According to an undocumented, biased source with a lot to gain from the potential lack of traditional land claim to the area, "Yupiks returning to their homes along the Nushagak River would sometimes become lost in the fog and find themselves swept up the Wood River to Aleknagik Lake by the tide." This unsubstantiated claim does not seem to take into account the fact that the tidal influence of the Nushugak Bay on the Wood River does not in fact have enough strength to propel an unwilling adult paddler up

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Alaska
• Dillingham Census Area

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 48.6917764743 km squared

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