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=== 1880sβ1920s === In the town's census of 1880, 40 residents of the island were recorded.<ref>[blob:https://kawerak.org/d0fa8fbf-3abf-436e-b719-7d5655ac3991 Diomede Local Economic Development Plan] Kawerac. By Simon Ellanna Strickling et al. January 10, 2013. Submitted May 27, 2024.</ref> According to naturalist [[John Muir]], who visited the Diomede Islands in the 1880s, natives were eager to trade away everything they had. The village was perched on the steep rocky slope of the mountain, which has sheer drops into deep water. Huts were mostly built of stone with skin roofs.<ref>{{cite book| url= http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/the_cruise_of_the_corwin/chapter_3.html | first=John | last= Muir | year= 1881 | title=The cruise of the Corwin| chapter= Chapter 3: Siberian Adventures| via= yosemite.ca.us| accessdate=}}</ref> During the [[Nome, Alaska|Nome]] [[gold rush]] at the turn of the 20th century, Diomede villagers traveled to Nome along with the gold seekers, even though Nome was not a native village. People from Diomede arrived in [[umiak]]s and stayed in Nome for the summer, trading and gathering items before they returned to their isolated village.<ref name="state1">{{cite web | url= http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/AEIS/Nome/Tourism/Nome_Tourism_Narrative.htm | publisher=State of Alaska | title= Nome census area tourism |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20040916081116/http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/AEIS/Nome/Tourism/Nome_Tourism_Narrative.htm | archivedate=September 16, 2004 | accessdate=}}</ref>
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