Kinugumiut

The Kinugumiut, who call themselves the Kiŋikmiut, are the Iñupiaq people of the Bering Strait tip of the Seward Peninsula, around Port Clarence and Cape Prince of Wales, the site of present-day Wales, or Kiŋigin, the westernmost town on the North American mainland. They speak the Bering Strait dialect of Iñupiaq and belonged to the whaling and sea-mammal hunting culture of the strait, trading across the narrow water with the peoples of Siberian Chukotka.

Captain James Cook named Cape Prince of Wales on his voyage of 1778, and in 1827 a Russian naval report listed their coastal and inland villages by name, making the Kinugumiut one of the best-documented Alaskan Inuit groups of the early contact period.