
The 411 in the 533 / June 2010
The month of May is Kayangut, the time to go hunting for bird eggs! The Kvichak River braids belong to the birds—trumpeter swans, Canadian geese, mallards, whistling wings, speckled bellies, seagulls, terns, and snipes… They lay eggs at a time before the lodges open and the bugs begin to swarm! After a long, hectic day in The Office with phones ringing constantly and piles of paperwork that actually have no end, I find release on the River. It reminds me: this is why I am here—for this freedom!
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Igiugig is a small village (population 64) located in southwestern Alaska, on the south bank of the mouth of the Kvichak River and Lake Iliamna. The village is 48 miles southwest of Iliamna, Alaska and 56 miles northeast of King Salmon, Alaska. The Village's population consists mainly of Yup'ik Eskimos, Aleuts, and Athabascan Indians. The word Igiugig means "Like a throat that swallows water" in the Yup'ik language - a name clearly derived from the location of the Village right at the mouth where Lake Illiamna feeds the Kvichak River.
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