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Aleuts
Aleuts ( ; (west) or (east) ) are the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Both the Aleuts and the islands are politically divided between the U.S. state of Alaska and the Russian administrative division of Kamchatka Krai. This group is also known as the Unangax̂ in Unangam Tunuu, the Aleut language. There are 13 federally recognized Aleut tribes in the Aleut Region of Alaska. In 2000, Aleuts in Russia were recognized by government decree as a small-numbered Indigenous people.
Aleutian Islands Campaign
1942 military campaign
Haida people
indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Thule people
ancestors of modern Inuit people
Paleo-Eskimo
The Paleo-Eskimo (meaning 'old Eskimos'), also known as Paleo-Inuit, were the peoples who inhabited the Arctic region from Chukotka (e.g., Chertov Ovrag) in present-day Russia across North America to Greenland before the arrival of the modern Inuit and related cultures (formerly called Eskimo). The first known Paleo-Eskimo cultures developed by 3900 to 3600 BCE, but were gradually displaced in most of the region, with the last one, the Dorset culture, disappearing around 1500 CE.
Alpine
town
John R. Swanton
American anthropologist and linguist (1873-1958)
Duke Island
island in Alaska, United States of America
Old Bering Sea
archaeological culture associated with a distinctive, elaborate circle and dot aesthetic style and is centered on the Bering Strait region; no site is more than 1 km from the ocean
Maritime fur trade
ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters
Tsetsaut
The Tsetsaut (Nisga'a language: ''Jits'aawit; in the Tsetsaut language: Wetaŀ or Wetaɬ) were an Athabaskan-speaking group whose territory was around the head of the Portland Canal, straddling what is now the boundary between the US state of Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia. The name T'set'sa'ut'', meaning "those of the Interior", was used by the Nisga'a and Gitxsan in reference to their origin as migrants into the region from somewhere farther inland; their use of the term is not to the Tsetsaut alone but also can refer to the Tahltan and the Sekani.
Willow project
oil development project in Alaska
Operation Breakthrough
international effort to free three gray whales from pack ice
Ancient Beringian
extinct archaeogenetic lineage
Arctic small tool tradition
prehistoric culture