Tununak (Too-new-nak) (Central Yupik: Tununeq) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States.
[2] It is located on the northwest side of Nelson Island in the Bering Sea.
Tununak was visited by Edward Nelson in December of 1878, where he reported 6 people living there.
[4] Two years later, it first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as "Tanunak", an unincorporated village of 8 residents, all Inuit.
It was disincorporated in 1997 and made a census-designated place (CDP) effective with the 2000 census.
The racial makeup of the CDP was 94.77% Central Yupik, 3.08% White, and 2.15% from two or more races.
23.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
Kimberly C. Price, who formerly taught at the school, stated that students are in mainly Yupik speaking houses and generally retain fluency of the language.