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Aleuts


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    • Aleutians
    • Alyoots
    • Anĝaĝin
    • Unangan
    • Unangin
    • Unung'un
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    • found: Work cat.: Merculieff, Larry. Wisdom Keeper : one man's journey to honor the untold history of the Unangan people, 2016:p. 1 (my people, the Aleut people, or Unangan as we say in our language, Unangan Tunuu; the Unangan) p. 2 (The Unangan, an advanced seagoing people)
    • found: The new encyclopædia Britannica, c2010:v. 1, p. 238 (Aleut, a native of the Aleutian Islands and western portion of the Alaska Peninsula of northwest North America; Aleuts) index (Aleut, or Unangan (people); Unangan (people): see Aleut)
    • found: The Gale encyclopedia of Native American tribes, c1998:v. 3, p. 28 (Unangan. Unangan and Aleut often are used interchangeably to refer to the same group of people; the name "Unangan" (alternately transliterated as "Unung'un" means "people," and, therefore, is the name Unangan ascribe to themselves. Though "Aleut" may be more widely recognized, it was not used until Russian fur-traders made contact. Location: Primarily the Aleutian Islands of west Alaska, but also the western tip of the Alaskan Peninsula and Pribilof and Shumagin Islands; the Unangan)
    • found: Encyclopedia of world cultures, c1991:v. 1 (Aleut. Ethnonyms: Aleutian, Alyoot. Today, Aleuts infrequently refer to themselves with the Aleut word "Unangin" (or "Anĝaĝin"), meaning approximately "we, the people"; some thirteen villages today, mostly in the Pribilofs and eastern Aleutians)
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    • 2016-09-20: new
    • 2022-01-31: revised
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