Native Village of Kanatak Jail

Native Village of Kanatak Jail Information

Kanatak, an Alutiiq village and for a short time, an oil exploration boom town, is an abandoned village, it remains inhabited in the minds of the Native elders and their offspring that deny Kanatak is dead.Before Kanatak was put on the map, it was once a quiet village with Alutiiq/Russian village whose families lived off the land and sea traveling through the mountain passes to Becharof Lake and down to Egegik, Ugashik and other coastal communities. Kanatak managed to maintain its tribal identity transitioning into the 1920’s and weathering through the oil boom and 1919 pandemic. Families, such as the Amock’s Boskoffsky, Chernikoff, Fred’s Kalmakoff’s, Kosbruk’s, Giacommetti’s, Murphy’s, Rufe’s, Shangin’s Takak’s, Yagi’s, Yagosloff’s Survaloff’s and Zakoff’s, that were captured in the 1939 census are the backbone of ther tribe.Kanatak became synonymous with oil and gas industry in the 1920’s in Alaska, America’s newest frontier, sharing the limelight with only Katella in the entire state of Alaska. Walt Disney even had an interest in the Kanatak oil and gas leases,

Tribe: Native Village of Kanatak

Phone: 907-357-5991

Physical Address:
Native Village of Kanatak Jail
Alaska Regional office
Wasilla, AK 99687

Mailing Address (personal mail):
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Native Village of Kanatak Jail
PO Box 876822
Wasilla, AK 99687

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