Brevig Mission, Alaska

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.

Native huts and storage platforms, with platform graves in the distance, Teller reindeer station (1894)
Nome Census Area map