Eskimos populate it. Naturally, their daily life is totally different than a hundred years ago. They live in two-story cottages, complete with telephones, Hoovers, television, computers, gigantic fridges, sewerage, radio and other niceties. The St. Lawrence Island is the extreme point of America, further west is Russian Chukotka. Chukotka is the end of the Russian world.
Further east is America.
So sewerage and fridges are simply redundant under the circumstances. There is no electricity either. And most of the villagers are jobless. There is simply nothing they could do. There is no work in the village and they are reluctant to leave.