Pauloff Harbor Village Explained

Band Name:Pauloff Harbor Village
People:Aleuts
Headquarters:Sand Point, Alaska, US
Chief:George P. Gunderson

Pauloff Harbor Village is a federally recognized Aleut Alaska Native tribal entity.[1]

About

Pauloff Harbor Village is headquartered at Sand Point on Popof Island in the Shumagin Islands of the Aleutians East Borough.[2] It is one of three federally recognized Aleut tribes in Sand Point.[3]

The tribe is named after Pauloff Harbor off the coast of Sanak Island. Sanak Island is now unpopulated and the former community of Pauloff Harbor is a ghost town. Sanak Island had been populated by Aleut people until 1828 when Russian colonial administrators displaced the population.[4]

As of 2005, the tribe had 51 enrolled citizens.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pauloff Harbor . . 2024-01-08.
  2. Web site: Pauloff Harbor Village . . 2024-01-08.
  3. Web site: 300 Villages: Sand Point . . 2023-01-12.
  4. Black, Lydia T. Russians in Alaska: 1732-1867. University of Alaska Press, 2004. pp. 199.
  5. Web site: Alaska Native Villages . . 2024-01-14.