King Island (Alaska)

The Ugiuvaŋmiut spent their summers engaging in subsistence hunting and gathering on King Island and on the mainland near the location of present-day Nome, Alaska.

Subsistence activities on and around the island included hunting seals and walruses, crab fishing, and gathering bird eggs and other foods.

Due to the limited daylight during the winter, the days were spent dancing in the "Qagri", or men's communal house.

Because the children were not on the island to help gather food, the adults and elders had no choice but to move to mainland Alaska to make their living.

[needs update] King Island first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the unincorporated native eskimo village of "Ookivagamute.