Ikogmiut

The Ikogmiut, who call themselves the Kuigpagmiut, are the Central Alaskan Yup'ik people of the lower Yukon River. Their name means the people of Kuigpak, the big river, as the Yukon is known in Yup'ik, and their villages stood on the river's lower reaches and the channels of its delta. River fishing, above all for salmon, with seasonal sea-mammal hunting on the nearby Bering coast, was the basis of life in their riverside sod-house villages.

In 1834 Andrei Glazunov led the first Russian expedition up the Yukon, opening the river to the Russian-American Company's fur trade and bringing the Ikogmiut their first direct contact with Europeans.