Agw'aneq

Agw’aneq is the Alutiiq name associated with Afognak, an island just north of Kodiak. Its bays and salmon streams have supported maritime communities for thousands of years. Alutiiq people hunted sea mammals and fished along its shores, moving between settlements as resources and circumstances changed. Russian fur seekers reached the island in the 1780s; a village identified by Afognak elders with the later Alutiiq settlement was recorded in Russian censuses in 1795 and 1804.