Places

Ward Wells Collection, Anchorage Museum

Is That a Village in a Wilderness Park?

In the late 1940s bands of nomadic Nunamiut Eskimos settled in Anaktuvuk Pass. Today their village represents a combination of modern and traditional lifeways. Read More...

 

Jasper N. Wyman Collection, Anchorage Museum

Stampede to the Koyukuk Gold Country

During the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1898 many stampeders arrived too late and turned instead to Alaskan rivers like the Koyukuk and Alatna. This is the story of the photographer Jasper Wyman and a group from Illinois that traveled to the Brooks Range foothills in search of gold. Read More...

 

NPS Photo /Jeff Rasic

Caribou Hunter's Landscape at Agiak Lake

People have hunted caribou in the Brooks Range for thousands of years. One strategy characteristic of the region was to steer the animals into lakes where they were hunted from kayaks. Exceptionally well preserved evidence of this system in the form of stone hunting blinds and hundreds of rock cairns (inuksuit) can be found at Agiak Lake. Read more...

 

Native people built Inuksuit ("stone men"), like this one in the Upper Nigu Valley, to guide Caribou herds close to hunters.

NPS Photo / Caitlin Holloway