Funter Bay is a two-mile-long (3 km)

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on the western side of

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near its northern tip, in the

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of the

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. It lies within the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, in the

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of Alaska. Funter Bay was the site of a

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for

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s relocated 1500 miles from their homes. It was "the site of an abandoned cannery in which the St. Paul evacuees were housed. The St. George camp was across the bay at an old mine site." The injustices they suffered were the subject of the US Congress' Aleut Restitution Act of 1988. Coot Cove 4301-02

Demographics

Funter Bay appeared on the 1890 U.S. Census as an unincorporated area with 25 residents (described as a mining camp, though a cannery was also located here). Of its residents, 20 were Native Americans (9 males and 11 females) and 5 were White (all male). 15 residents were considered "native", while 10 were considered "foreign." There were 8 houses and 11 families. It has not appeared on the census since.

Notes

External links

A Century of Servitude

'Aleut Story' film site
Bays of Alaska Bays of Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska World War II internment camps in the United States {{HoonahAngoonAK-geo-stub