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Every other year, the people gather in Nulato to celebrate the week long Stick Dance Festival.

It is celebrated on the years that it is not held in Kaltag, Alaska.

People from all over the Athabascan region gather in the small village to attend the sacred dance that is done to celebrate the lives of lost loved ones and to appreciate the people that helped the family through the mourning process.

Nulato residents are predominantly Koyukon Athabascan with trapping and subsistence lifestyle.