FDI - Ingalik

*Ethnie:*	INGALIK
*Language:*	Upper-Kuskoquim
*Family:*	Tanana-Upper Kuskoquim
*Stock:*	Athapaskan
*Phylum:*	Na-Dene
*Macro-Culture:*	Alaska

The Ingalik were a hunter/gatherer tribe of the sparsely populated Yukon Valley between Anvik and Holy Cross. They relied heavily on fishing and had little early White contact until the steamboat era. They nonetheless suffered greatly from smallpox.

Aboriginal Locations (Villages)

AK Anvik-Shageluk, Bonasila, Holy Cross-Georgetown, McGrath (15)

Year	*History*
1832	Russian trading station on Kuskokwin River
1834	Andre Glazunov explored Yukon River
1838	Smallpox epidemic
1867	Alaska purchase, steamboat era
1887	Episcopalian mission at Anvik
1888	Catholic mission at Holy Cross

Year	AK Population	Source
	1,500	Snow aboriginal estimate
1700	1,500	NAHDB calculation
1800	1,500	NAHDB calculation
1832	1,500	Snow estimate
1844	900	Snow
1900	600	Snow
1900	600	NAHDB calculation
1934	500	Snow
1974	530	Snow
2000	800	NAHDB calculation

Ingalik Sites

Crooked Creek http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Crooked+Creek

Degexit' an Language http://www.native-languages.org/degexitan.htm

Doyon Limited http://www.doyon.com/

Ingalik http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/ingalik.html

Ingalik Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t301

Kuskoquim Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kuu

Kuskoquim Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=kuu

Yukon River Notes http://www.qnet.com/~dpostma/r-notes.htm