Editing Unalakleet, Alaska (section)

==History==
''Unalakleet'' is an adaptation of the [[Inupiat language|Iñupiaq]] word ''"Una-la-thliq"'',<ref name="DCCED">[http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CF_CIS.htm Community Information Summaries: "Unalakleet."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070402120839/http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CF_CIS.htm |date=April 2, 2007 }} Alaska Community Database Online, Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. Retrieved on April 13, 2007.</ref> which means "from the southern side".

Unalakleet is located at the Norton Sound end of the Unalakleet-Kaltag Portage, an important winter travel route between Norton Sound and the [[Yukon River]]. Unalakleet has long been a major trade center between the [[Athabascan]] people, who lived in the interior of Alaska, and the [[Inupiat people|Inupiat]], who lived on the coast.

In the 1830s Russian explorers and traders came: The [[Russian-American Company]] built a trading post here at Unalakleet. In 1898 the United States arranged for [[Sami people|Sami]] [[reindeer]] herders from [[Lapland (Sweden)|Lapland]] to be brought to Unalakleet, to work with the people about herding practices. In 1901, the [[United States Army Signal Corps]] built a {{convert|605|mi|km|adj=on}} telegraph line from [[St. Michael, Alaska|St. Michael]] that passed through Unalakleet.