As in many Alaskan villages, Christian tradition has become interwoven with its cultural history.
All three groups were alerted to the baby's birth more or less simultaneously, and headed for the remote Alaskan village where the birth took place.
He'd been to the same group of Alaskan villages where I worked.
He'd grown up as the only white boy in a native Alaskan village where his mother was a schoolteacher and his father was simply gone.
The 1918 flu reached Alaskan villages where the only way visitors could arrive was by dog sled.
In Alaskan villages, whale meat is sometimes eaten.
Native Alaskan villages are also seeking to bar the settlement in a District Court here.
Kathryn Carl arrived two years ago from a rural Alaskan village to take a job as the island schoolteacher.
Indeed, the Alaskan village of Shishmaref could be just the beginning.
The virus arrived at even the most improbable places, like isolated Alaskan villages.