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Tikiġaq School
Tikiġaq School is a PreK-12 school in Point Hope, Alaska. It is a part of the North Slope Borough School District. it had 46 employees and 229 students. Half of the employees members were certified while the other half were classified.Executive Summary Tikigaq School North Slope Borough School District " AdvancED. p. 4/7. Retrieved on February 14, 2017. History most of the principals only stay at the school for up to one year.Athletics The high-school boys' basketball team has won three consecutive Class 2-A Alaska championships. Basketball became popula ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Hope, Alaska Point Hope ( ik, Tikiġaq, ) is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 674, down from 757 in 2000. In the 2020 Census, population rose to 830. Like many isolated communities in Alaska, the city has no road or rail connections to the outside world, and must be accessed by sea or by air at Point Hope Airport. History Before any modern settlement, the Ipiutak lived here. The descriptive Inuit name of the place, "Tikarakh" or " Tikiġaq", commonly spelled "Tiagara", means "forefinger". It was recorded as "Tiekagagmiut" in 1861 by P. Tikhmeniev Wich of the Russian Hydrographic Department and on Russian Chart 1495 it became "Tiekaga". This ancient village site was advantageous, because the protrusion of Point Hope into the sea brought the whales close to the shore. At Tikigaq, they built semi-subterranean houses using mainly whalebone and driftwood. Point Hope is one of the oldest cont |
