Qutekcak Native Tribe
“Changing with the tides, in harmony with our people, land and heritage.”
Your Community Resource
QNT…
is the tribal organization of the Native Community of Seward, Alaska. It is created to promote the unity, self-determination, and empowerment of our members and other Native people residing in the Eastern Kenai Peninsula. Qutekcak provides services that strengthen the people by increasing opportunities, and enhancing their mental, physical, and spiritual well being, in harmony with our land, and heritage.
Your Contributions….
To protect and save lives.
To make a bright future possible for all.
To share with our Elders.
Click this link to see 3 ways you can help!Historical Overview
The aboriginal Qutekcak (pronounced K’toochek) Native Tribe was located in and around Seward, Alaska, on the sheltered northern tip of Resurrection Bay, which opens up to the Gulf of Alaska. Qutekcak translates from the Alutiiq language as “Big Beach” (Quta meaning beach). Qutekcak was a prehistoric Alaska Native mixing area, serving as a crossroads for the various Alutiiq and Sugpiaq groups residing in the rich marine geographical region of South Central Alaska, extending from Kodiak and the Alaska Peninsula in the west, across Lower Cook Inlet/Kachemak Bay and the Gulf of Alaska, to the islands of Prince William Sound and the northern Alaska Panhandle in the east.
Other Alaska Natives joined the aboriginal community through forced labor and voluntary work when the Russian traders established a ship building settlement at the present day Seward location in the early part of 19th century. U. S. commercial interests, beginning in 1867 with the U. S. purchase of Alaska from Russia, provided further population influx and mixing. Gold miners arrived in the 1890’s, setting up an encampment as the trail head for the overland route to Hope and Sunrise. Then in 1903 the Alaska Railroad officially established the town of Seward as its southern terminus by purchasing land from Mary Lowell, of mixed Russian and Alaska Native ancestry, and building over an old Native village site.
Seward’s Native Pride
On the edges of pristine and serene Resurrection Bay, the Qutekcak Native Tribe offers a place for Alaska Native people in the region to help improve their lives. Members of Qutekcak are a blend of Alaska’s Native peoples from all corners of the state. Through a variety of cultural activities, educational and support programs, we offer activities that sustain our people and opportunities for growth for the region’s first people.
- Dolly Wiles, Tribal Administrator
Qutalleq Land Acknowledgement:
(This mural will be on the TelAlaska building, 335 Forth Avenue coming soon)
Let us acknowledge that we are on the homeland of the Sugpiaq / Alutiiq People, who have lived and thrived on this land for thousands of years.
We ask that you respect and acknowledge the culture, Sugt’stun language and their history.
Let us honor the Native way of life in modern times as they continue their subsistence practices, cultural traditions and speak their language.