Up Close Place Name: Cetuyraq Native Name: Estuyaraq Native Language: Yup’ik English Name: New Stuyahok Language : Yup’ik Type: Village Meaning: Place to go downriver Source: Place names Up-River Tape 3a, 1996; Jacobson, Steven A. 1984 :114; Alaska Department of Community & Economic Development; Vanstone, James W, Volume 56 Number 3, 1968:220; Orth, Donald … Continued
Ekwok is located along the Nushagak River, 43 miles northeast of Dillingham. Ekwok means “end of the bluff” and is the oldest continuously-occupied Yup’ik Eskimo village on the river. During the 1800s, the settlement was used in the spring and summer as a fish camp and in the fall as a base for berry picking. … Continued