Chevak is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 951, up from 938 in 2010.
Chevak, August 2013
Wind turbine farm in Chevak
Original trading post on the Keoklevik River at the old town of Chevak, 2006
Old town of Chevak on the Kashunuk river
Chevak Cupʼik or just Cupʼik is a subdialect of the Hooper Bay–Chevak dialect of Yupʼik spoken in southwestern Alaska in the Chevak by Chevak Cupʼik Eskimos. Speakers of the Chevak subdialect refer to themselves as Cupʼik, while speakers of the Hooper Bay subdialect refer to themselves as Yupʼik, as in the Yukon-Kuskokwim dialect.
Chevak, the school (blue), lake, and condemned old school (red)
Hooper Bay youth, 1930