Editing Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska (section)

==History==
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Anaktuvuk Pass was named after the [[Anaktuvuk River]]. ''Anaktuvuk'' is the English way of spelling "anaqtuġvik", ''place of caribou droppings'' in [[Inupiaq language|Inupiaq]], the language of the Inupiat.<ref>{{cite book |title= Native American Place Names of the United States|last= Bright |first= William |year= 2004|publisher= University of Oklahoma Press|isbn= 9780806135984|page= 38 }}</ref>

A [[nomad]]ic group of Inupiat called ''[[Nunamiut]]'' lived inland in northern Alaska, hunting [[reindeer|caribou]] instead of the [[marine mammal]]s and fish hunted by the rest of the Inupiat, who live on the coast.<ref>Stephen Adolphe Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler, and Darrell T. Tyron (1996), [https://books.google.com/books?id=glU0vte5gSkC&dq=Uummarmiut+nunamiut+migrated&pg=PA1080 Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas]</ref> The Nunamiut traded with the coastal people for other items they needed. A decline in caribou populations around 1900 and in the 1920s caused many Nunamiut to move to the coast. In 1938, several Nunamiut families moved back to the Brooks Range, around Tulugak and the [[Killik River]]. In 1949 the Killik River group moved to Tulugak Lake, 15 miles north of where the village lies today. Anaktuvuk Pass is the only Nunamiut settlement.

This settlement attracted Inupiaq people from many other locations, and villagers today lead a somewhat more [[sedentary lifestyle]] than in nomadic times. The city was incorporated in 1959. A [[Presbyterianism#North America|Presbyterian]] church was constructed in 1966.
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A federally recognized tribe is in the community: the [[Village of Anaktuvuk Pass]] (a.k.a. Naqsragmiut Tribal Council). The community population is 88.3% [[Alaska Natives]] or part Native. Anaktuvuk Pass is a Nunamiut Eskimo community dependent upon subsistence activities. Sale, importation and possession of alcohol are banned in the village.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anaktuvuk Pass |url=https://www.nps.gov/gaar/learn/historyculture/anaktuvuk-pass.htm |website=National Park Service |access-date=February 20, 2019}}</ref>

Anaktuvuk Pass [[post office]] was established in May 1951.<ref>http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt011.cfm{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The first postmaster was Homer Mekiana.<ref>Dickerson, Ora B. (1989) ''120 Years of Alaska Postmasters, 1867–1987'', p. 18. Scotts, Michigan: Carl J. Cammarata</ref> As of 2009, its post office was considered the most isolated in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Postal Facts 2009 |url=https://about.usps.com/news/fact-sheets/facts/postalfacts2009.pdfhttps://about.usps.com/news/fact-sheets/facts/postalfacts2009.pdf |website=United States Postal Service}}</ref>