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We would like to provide the residents of  Point Hope  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Point Hope Home page. The Point Hope Home page provides as much information as possible on Point Hope. Knowing Point Hope’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Point Hope’s Home page, you will also find Point Hope’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Point Hope has a population of 660. 55% of Point Hope’s inhabitants are Male, and 45 are female. 41.7% of Point Hope is married and 61.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $101,903, and the average rent is $1,042. Household median income in Point Hope is $59,375, and the individual median income is $17,875. Point Hope’s Ethnic is the following: Native(81.1%), Multiple(11.5%), White(4.7%), Hispanic(4.2%), Black(2.3%), Asian(0.5%).


Before any modern settlement, the Ipiutak lived here. The descriptive Inuit name of the place, "Tikarakh" or "Tikiġaq", commonly spelled "Tiagara", means "forefinger". It was recorded as "Tiekagagmiut" in 1861 by P. Tikhmeniev Wich of the Russian Hydrographic Department and on Russian Chart 1495 it became "Tiekaga".


This ancient village site was advantageous, because the protrusion of Point Hope into the sea brought the whales close to the shore. At Tikigaq, they built semi-subterranean houses using mainly whalebone and driftwood. Point Hope is one of the oldest continually occupied sites in North America. While some of the earlier dwellings have been lost to erosion as the point shrinks, it still provides valuable information to archaeologists on how early Eskimos survived in their harsh environment.


The Tikigaq site is "by far the most extensive and complete one-period site yet discovered and described in the entire circumpolar region." - Helge Larsen.The first recorded Europeans to sight this cape were Russian explorers Mikhail Vasiliev and Gleb Shishmaryov of the Imperial Russian Navy on the ships Otkrietie and Blagonamierennie.


Vasiliev and Shishmaryov named this landhead Mys Golovnina, after Vice Admiral Vasily Golovnin (1776–1831). The cape at Point Hope was renamed by Captain Frederick William Beechey of the Royal Navy, who wrote on August 2, 1826: "I named it Point Hope in compliment to Sir William Johnstone Hope". According to Archdeacon Stuck Hope was from a "well-known house long connected with the sea".Noel Wien made the first flight here in Aug.


1927.Point Hope residents successfully opposed Project Chariot in 1962. The project would have involved buried thermonuclear detonations some 30 miles (48 km) from the village to create a deep-water artificial harbor, which would only have been usable about three months out of the year.


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