Nuchek (Núciq) - Description

Makari Chimovitski, 1933. His Alutiiq name was Alingun Nupatlkerlugoq Angakhuna. After the smallpox epidemic at Nuchek in the early 1900’s, Chief Chimovitski founded Makaka Point where he took many children whose parents had died of smallpox at Nuchek. Courtesy of the Cordova Historical Society, 83-4-2.