Kashega | |
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Village | |
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  Kashega | |
| Coordinates: 53°27′58″N167°09′45″W / 53.466184°N 167.162548°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Alaska |
| Census Area | Aleutians West |
| Time zone | UTC-10:00 (HST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-9:00 (HDT) |
Kashega was an Aleut settlement located on the North coast of Unalaska Island, in Kashega Bay.
Following the Japanese occupation of Attu and Kiska and the bombing of Dutch Harbor as part of the Aleutian Islands campaign during the Second World War, the US Government decided to evacuate the village of Makushin along with several other villages on the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, and the villagers were relocated to camps in Southeastern Alaska. The villagers of Kashega were sent to the Ward Lake CCC camp along with the villagers of Akutan, Makushin, Biorka and Nikolski where they suffered considerable hardship and 18% of the villagers at the camp perished during the war. [1] To alleviate the overcrowding, the villagers of Biorka, Kashega and Makushin were moved to the facility at Burnett Inlet in 1944. [2]
Following the war the villagers were brought to Akutan, but were told they could not resettle their villages, most of the villagers then settled into other native communities. Two of the villagers (George Borenin and Cornelius Kudrin) eventually re-settled in Kashega establishing a permanent residence, however ill health eventually forced them to leave Kashega. By 1960 Kashega was again abandoned and a priest arranged a visit to collect the chapel's icons, signalling the end of the settlement. [3]
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1834 | 41 | — |
| 1867 | 69 | +68.3% |
| 1890 | 46 | −33.3% |
| 1897 | 52 | +13.0% |
| 1920 | 51 | −1.9% |
| 1930 | 38 | −25.5% |
| Source: . [4] | ||