Ekuk, Alaska

Unorganized Borough

02-21700

Ekuk is a village in the Dillingham Census Area, Alaska. According to the 2000 census, there were two people. The workers of the canneries and the crews of commercial fishing boats bring the village in the summer to life.

History

Ekuk means " the last village down" and suggests that Ekuk the southernmost village on the Nushagak Bay, a tributary of the Bristol Bay. The village is mentioned in Russian records from 1824 and 1828 as Ekouk and Seleniye Ikuk. It is believed that Ekuk was once a large village of the Inuit. Before 1903, the first cannery was opened in Ekuk, attracted many residents to the Moravian Mission at Carmel. Today only possible locally throughout the year, the family of the security guard of the cannery.