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St. Lawrence Island famine

St. Lawrence Island famine

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The St. Lawrence Island famine killed around 1,000 people on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea off the Alaskan mainland during the years 1878–1880. The possible causes may have been overfishing, disease, or the negative aspects of settler contact. The island had a population of about 4,000 Central Alaskan Yupik and Siberian Yupik in the late 19th century, which subsisted by hunting walrus and
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