It is also known as Alyeska, the " great land ", an Aleut word derived from the same root.

Aleut people () are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, United States and Kamchatka Krai, Russia.

The name " Aleut " comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning " community.

" The name Aleut was given to the Unangan by Russian fur traders in the mid-18th century.

Тhe Aleut people were distributed throughout the Aleutian Islands, the Shumagin Islands, and the far western part of the Alaska Peninsula, with an estimated population of around 25, 000 before contact with Europeans.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

Their numbers have dwindled to about 2, 000 as a consequence of disease and disruption of traditional lifestyles, though people with partial Aleut descent may number around 15, 000.

One of the earliest Christian martyrs in North America was Saint Peter the Aleut.

In 1811, in order to obtain more of the now commercially valuable otter pelts, a party of Aleut hunters traveled to the coastal island of San Nicolas, near the Alta California-Baja California border.

The locally resident Nicoleño nation sought a payment from the Aleut hunters for the large number of otters being killed in the area.

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

The Aleut Restitution Act of 1988 was an attempt by Congress to compensate the survivors.

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

There were some negotiations with higher Aleut people about necessities that the Russians had run out of and that they had given to Aleuts in return for furs.

Four higher Aleut people had been executed.

Ivory and woodcarving were and are prevalent crafts for Aleut men to create, too.

Aleut seamstresses created finely stitched waterproof parkas from seal gut, and some women still master the skill of weaving fine baskets from dune wildrye grass or Elymus mollis.

Aleut arts are still very much alive today and are practiced and taught throughout the state of Alaska.

Aleut carvings are distinct in each region and have attracted traders for centuries.

Aleut basketry is some of the finest in the world, and the tradition began in prehistoric times. The main method of basketry used by the Aleuts was false embroidery ( overlay ).

Early Aleut women created baskets and woven mats of exceptional technical quality using only an elongated and sharpened thumbnail as a tool.

Today, Aleut weavers continue to produce woven grass pieces of a remarkable cloth-like texture, works of modern art with roots in ancient tradition. Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleuts in basketry.

The Aleut term for grass basket is qiigam aygaaxsii.

Nootka Texts: Tales and Ethnological Narratives with Grammatical Notes and Lexical Materials.

Trader ’ s Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846.

In 1817 he published his first prose work, De Underjordiske, et bornholmsk Eventyr ( The Subterranean Ones, a Story of Bornholm ), which was followed in 1820 by Eventyr og Fortœllinger ( Narratives and Miraculous Tales ), many of them imitations of Hoffmann.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

* Palaephatus, On Unbelievable Tales 46.

In the Tales of Redwall series the creatures of Redwall are led by an Abbot or Abbess.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

Both of those songs appeared on Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

* Absalom is the name of a comedic character in " The Miller's Tale " in the Canterbury Tales.

In Tales from the Crypt # 44 a plague-stricken man is eaten by a sperm whale, which produces ambergris that results in a cursed perfume.

* 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

According to Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, the Aegis is the breastplate of Zeus, and was " awful to behold.

* Paul Auster's collection of short stories entitled True Tales of American Life contains a story (' Mathematical Aphrodisiac ' by Alex Galt ) in which amicable numbers play an important role.

Tales concerning the Skjöldungs, possibly originating as early as the 6th century, were later used as a narrative basis in such texts as Gesta Danorum by Saxo Grammaticus and Hrólfs saga kraka.

Opinion differs as to whether the composition of the poem is contemporary with its transcription, or whether the poem was composed at an earlier time ( possibly as one of the Bear's Son Tales ) and orally transmitted for many years, and then transcribed at a later date.

In his landmark work, The Singer of Tales, Albert Lord refers to the work of Francis P. Magoun and others, saying “ the documentation is complete, thorough, and accurate.

* The yeoman in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is described as wearing a " baldrick of bright green.

In 1971 a ballet film was released, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, directed by Reginald Mills.

Potter is also featured in a series of light mysteries called The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter by Susan Wittig Albert.

( 1989 ) Star Tales, Lutterworth Press, ISBN 0-7188-2695-7 hardcover.

The techniques and sometimes the names have been successfully applied in other disciplines: for example, to determine the relationships between the surviving manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales, or also between 53 manuscripts of the Sanskrit Carakasaṃhitā Vimānasthāna.

The Asylum and Other Tales, a series of stand alone articles released in 1983, rated an overall 9 / 10 in Issue 47 of White Dwarf magazine.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

In " The Miller's Tale " in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a door is ripped off its hinges only to be slowly closed again in the next scene.