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Prior to major influence from outside, there were approximately 25, 000 Aleuts on the archipelago.

Barbarities by outside corporations and foreign diseases soon reduced the population to less than one-tenth this number, The 1910 Census count showed 1, 491 Aleuts.

In the 2000 Census, 11, 941 people reported they were of Aleut ancestry ; nearly 17, 000 said Aleuts were among their ancestors.

Alaskans generally recognize the Russian occupation left no full-blooded Aleuts.

When Alaska Natives enrolled in their regional corporations under the terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 ( ANCSA ), the Aleut Corporation attracted only about 2, 000 enrolees who could prove a blood quantum of 1 / 4 or more Alaska Native ( including Aleut ).