Noatak, Alaska
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Noatak is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 570 at the 2020 census, up from 514 in 2010. It is served by Noatak Airport.
Aerial view of a portion of Noatak village
Inuit in kayaks, Noatak
Inuit man, Noatak
Iñupiat
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The Iñupiat are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border. Their current communities include 34 villages across Iñupiat Nunaat, including seven Alaskan villages in the North Slope Borough, affiliated with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; eleven villages in Northwest Arctic Borough; and sixteen villages affiliated with the Bering Straits Regional Corporation. They often claim to be the first people of the Kauwerak.
Iñupiat woman sharing a kunik with a small child at a Nalukataq in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, 2007
Semi-underground men's community house (Qargi) with bowhead whale bones, Point Hope, Alaska, 1885
Iñupiaq high-kickball, ca. 1910, Utqiaġvik, Alaska, collection of the NMAI
A family of Iñupiat from Noatak, Alaska, 1929 – by Edward S. Curtis