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search Anaktuvuk house 1957.jpg A sod house (ivrulik) in
Anaktuvuk Pass in 1957, shortly after the village was
established. Regions with significant populations Inland Alaska
(United States) Iñupiat language, English Related ethnic groups
Iñupiat, Uummarmiut  The Nunamiut or Nunatamiut people (Iñupiaq
Nunataaġmiut[pronunciation?]) are semi-nomadic inland Iñupiat,
located in northern and northwestern Alaskan interior, mostly
around the Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, whose ancestors date back
hundreds of years.  The name Nunatamiut means "people of the
land."   Early Nunamiut lived by hunting caribou instead of the
marine mammals and fish hunted by coastal Iñupiat. After 1850
the interior became depopulated because of diseases, the decline
of the caribou and the migration to the coast (including the
Mackenzie Delta area in Canada, where they are called
Uummarmiut) where whaling and fox trapping provided a
temporarily promising alternative.[1]  Historically the