So, Unalakleet has had settlements there for (the best guess I could find) 2100-2600 years [1]. It sits at the ocean-side of a natural portage route between th

So, Unalakleet has had settlements there for (the best guess I could find) 2100-2600 years [1]. It sits at the ocean-side of a natural portage route between the Bering Sea and the Yukon River (Kaltag is at the Yukon river side of the portage). People have lived in Unalakleet long before contact with the "big, complicated and wealthy external world" and its subsidized infrastructure like law enforcement. Before whites came with army and police, the eskimos preferred banishment as the way of enforcing societal norms. [1] http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/11-2/Lutz.pdf http://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDF...