Brevig Mission (Inupiaq: Sitaisaq, Sitaisat, or Sinauraq) is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska.
Brevig Mission is a dry village, which means the sale or possession of alcohol is illegal.
Brevig Mission is served by the Bering Strait School District.
[12] The 72 victims were buried in the frozen ground in a mass grave dug for them by gold miners and marked by white crosses.
[13] As happened elsewhere in the Americas after the arrival of Columbus, Indigenous Alaska Natives had no genetic resistance to any flu, so it decimated many villages.
[12] In 1997, a team of scientists led by Johan Hultin exhumed the frozen remains of an Iñupiat woman who had been buried in the permafrost in a gravesite near Brevig Mission in a successful attempt to recover RNA from her lung tissue.
[14] It enabled them to analyze the structure of the 1918 influenza virus (Spanish flu), which may have originated in Fort Riley, Kansas, that killed her.