Tatitlek

- Tatitlek is a small village located within the Chugach National Forest, about 22 miles southwest of Valdez.

- The village was established at its current site in the late 1800s, after being supplanted at their former location by a copper mine. When another copper vein was discovered at Tatitlek in 1902, the people refused to move a second time.

- The Native Village of Tatitlek is governed by the Tatitlek IRA Council, composed of 7 members.

- Tatitlek is only accessible by air and water.

- Translated to English, Tatitlek means "Windy Place."

- Tatitlek is seven miles from the now famous Bligh Island, site of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

- In 1989, the Tatitlek Museum and Cultural Center opened as a means of counteracting the loss of the village language and culture. Culture is also transmitted through subsistence.

- Between the 1964 earthquake and the re-establishment of Chenega Bay on Evans Island in 1984, Tatitlek was the only remaining Alutiiq village in the Sound.