Arctic Village, Alaska

• Athabascan linguist, tradition bearer Katherine Peter dies
  

  Athabascan tradition bearer Katherine Peter died early Wednesday morning at home in Fairbanks.

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• Natives visit D.C. to seek restrictions on drilling
  

  Anti-drilling activists visited federal officials this week to lobby against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on offshore sites in Alaska.

• Alaska Natives gather in Washington, seek action on drilling, protection of wildlife refuge
  

  A group of women from Alaska's North Slope and the Canadian Arctic are in Washington this week to lobby the Obama administration and members of Congress about oil and gas development in Alaska.

• UAF student enlists grandfather's help in translating tapes of old Gwitch'in stories
  

  Two generations separate the Rev. Trimble Gilbert and his grandson Matthew Gilbert.

• Tiny Arctic Village Mans Climate's Front Line
  

  TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories September 8, 2009 Caught between rising seas and land melting beneath their mukluk-shod feet, the villagers of Tuktoyaktuk are doing what anyone would do on this windy Arctic coastline.

City Description

Arctic Village is an unincorporated Native American village and a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of the CDP was 152. The village is located in the large Gwitch'in speaking region of Alaska, and the local dialect is known as Di'haii Gwitch'in or Kutchin. As of 1999, over 95% of the community speaks and understands the language. (Kraus, 1999) Arctic Village is located at 68°7′19″N 145°31′40″W / 68.12194°N 145.52778°W / 68.12194; -145.52778 (68.121828, -145.527686), on the east fork of the Chandalar River, about a hundred miles north of Fort Yukon. The area consists of flat floodlands near the river, but is mostly wooded hills. Both the CDP and the "village" have the same total area, 69.9 square miles (180.9 km²), of which, 61.71 square miles (159.8 km²) is land and 8.12 square miles (21.0 km²) (11.63%) is water. Evidence from archaeological investigations indicate that the Arctic Village area may have been settled as early as 4500 BC. Around 500 AD the Athabascan speaking Gwich’in people (often called Neets'aii Gwich'in or “those who dwell to the north”) came into the area with seasonal

City Contained By:

• Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
• Alaska
• United States of America

Timezones:

• Alaska Time Zone

Size:

• 180.781170101 km squared

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