Alaskan Migration to the Delta

1870sAD

1800s–1900s

First migration of Alaskan settlers to the Delta after the drastic decline in caribou. In time, they will call themselves Uummarmiut, 'people of the evergreens and willows.'

The Kur̂ugaq family. This photograph, taken at Arctic Red River between 1912 and 1917, has a caption ‘Kooruk, last chief of the Nunatana’. Charlie Kur̂ugaq is standing at the right. Next to him is his wife Rebecca Aluniq with their daughter Annie'. The other woman and child are unidentified. Photo credit: Donald Cadzow/National Museum of the American Indian/N02025.