Legacy and Honors
- The Kilbuck Family Scholarship for Native Americans is awarded annually to a native American college student from Alaska or Oregon.
- The diaries and letters of John and Edith Kilbuck provide much information otherwise unavailable about Yupik life in the late 19th century.
- The book, The Real People and the Children of Thunder by Ann Fienup-Riordan, is about their ministry and the Yupik.
- The Kilbuck Mountain range and the Kilbuck Elementary School in Bethel, AK, were named for them.
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