Although its 3,082 residents make Kotzebue (Kotz-eh-biew) a good-size town, with a bank, a hospital, and a couple of grocery stores, I've heard it called a village instead. A "village," in Alaskan parlance, is a remote Native settlement in the Bush, generally with fewer than a few hundred residents, where people live relatively close to the traditional lifestyle of their indigenous ancestors. Kotzebue is a support hub for the villages of the Northwest Arctic, with jet service and a booming cash economy, but it's populated and run by the Iñupiat -- fish-drying racks and old dog sleds are scattered along the streets, and Native culture is thriving. It does feel like a village.
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