Chugach ( ), also known as Chugach Sugpiaq or Chugachigmiut, is the name of an Alaska Native people in the region of the Kenai Peninsula and Prince William Sound on the southern coast of Alaska. The Chugach people are an Alutiiq (Pacific Native) people who speak the Chugach dialect of the Alutiiq language.
Name
Their autonym derives from , meaning "person" and -, meaning "real".
Social structures and gender
There are historical accounts of some androgynous third gender or two spirit individuals among the Chugach, known as aranu'tiq. According to anthropologists writing in the 1950s, these individuals were considered to be male on one side of their bodies and female on the other.