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$75,625
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America/Anchorage
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Kaktovik, AK - History
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Welcome to the Kaktovik Home page. The Kaktovik Home page provides as much information as possible on Kaktovik. Knowing Kaktovik’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kaktovik’s Home page, you will also find Kaktovik’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Kaktovik has a population of 178. 58.4% of Kaktovik’s inhabitants are Male, and 41.6 are female. 18.5% of Kaktovik is married and 83.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $81,970, and the average rent is $950. Household median income in Kaktovik is $75,625, and the individual median income is $24,861. Kaktovik’s Ethnic is the following: Native(89.3%), Multiple(6.7%), White(3.4%), Hispanic(1.1%), Black(0.6%).
Until the late nineteenth century, Barter Island was a major trade center for the Inupiat and was especially important as a bartering place for Inupiat from Alaska and Inuit from Canada. Kaktovik was a traditional fishing place—Kaktovik means "Seining Place"—that has a large pond of good fresh water on high ground.
It had no permanent settlers until people from other parts of Barter Island and northern Alaska moved to the area around the construction of a runway and Distant Early Warning Line station in the 1950s. The area was incorporated as the City of Kaktovik in 1971. Due to Kaktovik's isolation, the village has maintained its Inupiat Eskimo traditions.
Subsistence is highly dependent upon the hunting of caribou and whale. In the early twenty-first century Kaktovik became a tourist destination to view polar bears. This is in part due to the native Inupiat, who are permitted to kill three bowhead whales a year, and after flensing the whales bodies, they leave the carcasses on the beach at the edge of town.
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