• Nelson Island (Central Yupik: Qaluyaaq) is an island in the Bethel Census Area of southwestern Alaska. It is 42 miles (68 km) long and 20–35 miles (32–56 km)...
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  • Nelson Island, Nelson's Island or Nelsons Island may refer to: Nelson Island (Alaska) Nelsons Island, in the Chagos Archipelago Nelson Island (South Shetland...
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  • Nelson Lagoon (Unangax̂: Niilsanam Alĝuudaa) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2020 census the...
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    Атту) is an island in the Near Islands (part of the Aleutian Islands chain). It is the westernmost point of the U.S. state of Alaska. The island became uninhabited...
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    or meat. The Iñupiat of Nelson Island eat the berries, as do the Iñupiat of the Northern Bering Sea and Arctic regions of Alaska, as well as the Inuvialuit...
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  • This is a list of islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. Approximately 2,670 named islands help to make Alaska the largest state in the United States. Aagumchiidalix...
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    Bay (TOOK-sook or TUCK-sook) is a city and village on Nelson Island in Bethel Census Area, Alaska. The population was 590 at the 2010 census, up from 532...
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  • The Alaska Highway (French: Route de l'Alaska; also known as the Alaskan Highway, Alaska-Canadian Highway, or ALCAN Highway) was constructed during World...
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    Alaska. It was under Russian rule from 1799 to 1867. The city is situated on the west side of Baranof Island and the south half of Chichagof Island in...
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    Northstar Island is a 5-acre (20,000 m2) artificial island in the Beaufort Sea, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska and 6 miles (9.7 km)...
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  • Retrieved January 31, 2008. Fienup-Riordan, Ann (1983). The Nelson Island Eskimo. Alaska Pacific University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-935094-09-1. Nightmute...
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  • Ann Fienup-Riordan (category Writers from Anchorage, Alaska)
    with the Yup'ik of western Alaska, particularly on Nelson Island and the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska. She received Historian of...
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    habitable area of Little Diomede Island in the Nome Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. All the buildings are on the west...
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    Yup'ik (redirect from West Alaska Eskimos)
    southwestern Alaska ranging from southern Norton Sound southwards along the coast of the Bering Sea on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (including living on Nelson and...
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  • Alaska Airlines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in SeaTac, Washington, within the Seattle metropolitan area. It is the fifth-largest...
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    Subsistence herring fishing in the Nelson Island District 1986 (PDF), Technical Paper No. 144, Bethel, Alaska: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, p. 41...
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    state of Alaska. It is the borough's seat, by far its largest community and the economic and transportation hub of the subregion of Alaska encompassing...
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    Admiralty Island is an island in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska, at 57°44′N 134°20′W / 57.733°N 134.333°W / 57.733; -134.333. It is 145 km (90 mi)...
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  • his Ph.D. degree from the University of California. Nelson spent many years living in Interior Alaska with indigenous people, reflected through his work...
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    This list of Alaska Native tribal entities names the federally recognized tribes in the state of Alaska. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971...
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    Movement of a Vagile Species. Reno, Nevada: Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Retrieved October 29, 2007. "Long Island". Encyclopædia Britannica (Britannica...
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    Cup'ig-speaking people of Nunivak Island) refers to the traditional Eskimo-style clothing worn by the Yupik people of southwestern Alaska. The traditional clothing...
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    between the Port of Whittier and Harbor Island in Seattle. Construction of the railroad started in 1903 when the Alaska Central Railroad built a line starting...
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    Chirikov sighted land, probably the west side of Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska. He sent a group of men ashore in a longboat, making them the...
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    Mary Peltola (redirect from Mary Nelson)
    of the state of Alaska." Ahead of the November 2022 election, Peltola announced endorsements from Don Young's daughters, Joni Nelson and Dawn Vallely...
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  • The Kudobin Islands are a group of small islands in the Bering Sea, near the coast of Alaska, 13 miles (21 km) west of Port Moller, Bristol Bay Low. The...
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    time, most creations, boundary changes and dissolutions have occurred in Alaska and Virginia. Among the 50 states, 44 are partitioned entirely into counties...
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  • take six hours under winter driving conditions. The Alaska Highway both north and south of Fort Nelson is most often very well plowed in the winter and offers...
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  • Kigigak Island is an island located near the northwest corner of Nelson Island at the mouth of Ninglick River, 110 miles west of Bethel in the Yukon-Kuskokwim...
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    Yupik peoples (category Alaska Native ethnic groups)
    Alutiiq, or Sugpiaq, of the Alaska Peninsula and coastal and island areas of southcentral Alaska. Yupʼik or Central Alaskan Yupʼik of the Yukon–Kuskokwim...
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