Wainwright, Alaska
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Wainwright, also known as Ulguniq or Kuuk, is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 628, making it the third largest city in the North Slope Boro
Wainwright during the summer months with the Arctic Ocean in the background
Wainwright in the 1940s
On August 18, 1778, at this location (70 44N) off Wainwright and 50 miles or so North of Icy Cape, Captain James Cook decided that his path North through the Northwest passage was completely blocked by ice and turned South again. Photo taken July 24, 2017.
Iñupiat
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The Iñupiat, also known as Alaskan Inuit, 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–U
Wainwright, Alaska
…known as Wainwright Inlet by 1890, Wainwright was founded as an incorporated municipality in 1962. The Wainwright area has long been inhabited by the Iñupiat, who called the region Ulġuniq. The Iñupiat were hunter-gatherers who participated in subsistence hunting and fishing, including the whaling of bowhead…
Iñupiaq 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
An Inupiat family from Noatak, Alaska, 1929, photograph by Edward S. Curtis