Niigugis

The Niigugis were Unangan people of the Andreanof Islands, including Atka in the central Aleutians. In the eighteenth century Russian fur hunters entered these waters; Ivan Korovin hunted in the island group during the 1760s and 1770s. A permanent Russian presence began on Atka in 1795, with a settlement on the shore of the bay later named for Korovin, below an Unangan village on the slope.