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Crow Village is a village located in the Bethel Census Area, Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 0. The current population is 5. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...
Bethel Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. ...
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Geography
Crow Village is located in the Bethel Census Area, Alaska at 61°35'17" North, 159°42'0" West (61.588, -159.7)1. Bethel Census Area is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. ...
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Crow Village is on the north bank of the Kuskokwim River 6.5 river miles west of Aniak, Alaska just downstream from where the Crow Village Slough dumps back into the Kuskokwim River. Crow Village is 86 miles by air northeast of Bethel. The Kuskokwim River is a river, approximately 650 mi (1,110 km) long, in southwest Alaska in the United States. ...
Aniak is a city located in Bethel Census Area, Alaska. ...
History There are indications the Kuskokwim Eskimos (Kuskowagamiut) began migrating inland from the Bering Sea around 500 years ago so it is conceivable that Crow Village was inhabited by the 1600s, but there are no historical records of the Kuskokwim (literally "cough river") valley dating that far back. We know that Crow Village was inhabited when the first Russian explorers came down the Kuskokwim River in the early 1800s. At the time there was an illegal tobacco trade originating from the French trappers through the Northwest Territories to the Fort Yukon area. From there, the tobacco went down the Yukon out to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. This tobacco was loaded into canoes and made its way across the Bering Sea. The Russian Army was in the midst of a war with China and needed to find out where this tobacco was originating from in order to tax it ( to make money for the war) and they sent a Lt. Zagoskin to find out where the tobacco was coming from. Hence he traveled to the Kuskokwim River via the Bristol Bay. He portaged across several rivers and ended up entering the Kuskokwim river thru the headwaters of the Hoholitna. This was the first explorer to record his encounter of Crow Village in 1843. At the time of his encounter, he described the village as one of the two main villages of the river with a year round population of approximately 100. This Village moved up and down the bank depending upon the river's course and appeared in the first US census after the US Became a territory in 1876.
Crow Village is actually called Tulukaghogamiut, which is roughly translated as "Raven Village People" widely believed to be named that after the boisterous raven bird population native to the nearby bluff. Alternately, it has also been referred to as Tulukagnag, Toolooka-anahamute, Tuluka and Tulukagangamiut by the various Russian and American explorers. The loose english translation of Crow Village is the most common moniker these days, and is certainly easier on the tongue.
Around 1910, Crow Village was moved downstream about 1/2 mile due to a change in the river sediment pattern. This settlement was referred to as New Crow Village. One of the youngsters involved in that move was Crow Village Sam (Phillips). By the 1950s, Croww Village Sam became regarded as the leader of the native people in the region. In 1954 he thought it best to vacate New Crow Village because of ongoing issues with epidemics brought on by white settlers. He moved the inhabitants upriver 18 miles to Chuathbaluk - formerly Little Russian Mission that had been abandoned since 1929.
In 1971, the Native Claims Settlement Act was written into law as a good will gesture to facilitate discussions for approval of the Trans Alaska Pipeline. As a result of that act, ownership of the land encompassing Crow Village was given to Crow Village Sam. This claim was later inherited by grandson to Crow Village Sam - David Phillips. David and his family would re-settle Crow Village in 1994.
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