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People have
lived in and around the Brooks Range and the Noatak, Kobuk and Koyukuk Rivers
for over 12,000 years. And, people live here still.
Read
about the Pre-history of the area:
Over the last decade, the Project
Jukebox interviewed many Alaska Natives living in and around Gates of the
Arctic. Justus Mekiana, interviewed in 1993 in Anaktuvuk Pass, recalls the
names of Native peoples.
Click on the
map to listen to hear how the Native names are pronounced.
Gates of
the Arctic Jukebox Project was funded by the Gates of the Arctic National Park
in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History
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