A Siberian Yupik village on St. Lawrence Island, closer to Russia than mainland Alaska
A Siberian Yupik village of around 680 people on the northwest tip of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, only about 58 km from the Chukotka coast of Russia. Known in Yupik as Sivuqaq, it remains deeply rooted in subsistence hunting.
St. Lawrence Island has been home to Yupik peoples for some 2,000 years and shares close cultural ties with the peoples of the Russian Far East across the strait. Gambell grew as a whaling and hunting community and a mission and school site in the late 1800s.
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