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.

One Aleut leader recognized by the State of Alaska for her work in teaching and reviving Aleut basketry was Anfesia Shapsnikoff whose life and accomplishments are portrayed in " Moments Rightly Placed.

One of the great Unangan leaders and educators of the 20th century was Anfesia Shapsnikoff who traveled around the state of Alaska, teaching Aleut basketry and encouraging elders to teach Unangan language and traditional skills so that youth could carry ancient knowledge into the future.

Aleut women are still today famed for their basketry and sewing techniques, capable of weaving grasses into watertight baskets and sewing seal gut into watertight raincoats suitable for the open ocean.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

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

The Aleut term for grass basket is qiigam aygaaxsii.

The Aleut people live in one of the harshest parts of the world, so warmth is a priority.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

A third group, the Aleut, is related.

Alaskans also use the term Alaska Native, which is inclusive of all Eskimo, Aleut and Indian people of Alaska, and is exclusive of Inuit or Yupik people originating outside the state.

The term " Eskimo " is also used worldwide in linguistic or ethnographic works to denote the larger branch of Eskimo – Aleut languages, the smaller branch being Aleut.

An overview of the Eskimo – Aleut languages family is given below:

For example, dual number is not known in Sirenik Eskimo, while most Eskimo – Aleut languages have dual, including its neighboring Siberian Yupikax relatives.

The language of the Inuit is an Eskimo – Aleut language.

It is fairly closely related to the Yupik languages, and more remotely to the Aleut language.

Cungagnaq ( date of birth unknown-d. 1815 ) is venerated as a martyr and saint ( as Peter the Aleut ) by some jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

However, the historicity of the martyrdom of Peter the Aleut is not clearly established.

Akutan ( ACK-oo-tan ) ( Achan-ingiiga in Aleut ) is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States.

Cold Bay ( Udaamagax in Aleut ) is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States.

False Pass ( Isanax ̂ in Aleut ) is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States.

) is the Aleut name for present day Isanotski Strait and means gap, hole, rent, or tear in the Aleut language which was rendered as Isanotski ( or Issanakskie, Isanotskoi, Isanakh etc.

King Cove ( Agdaaĝux ̂ in Aleut ) is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States.

The population of Atka is nearly entirely Aleut ( Unangan ).

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.

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.

Today some join St. Andrew with St. Peter the Aleut, an alleged martyr for the Orthodox faith from the hands of Roman Catholics, in a special devotion for the reunion of the two branches of Christianity.

Languages within the Paleo-Siberian group are thought by some to be related to the Na-Dené and Eskimo – Aleut families, which survive in slightly larger numbers in Alaska and northern Canada.

Although some indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere did have domestic dogs or caninae ; including the current Southwestern US, Aztec and other Central American peoples, the inhabitants of the Arctic / Tundra regions ( Inuit, Aleut, Cree ), and possibly some South American groups similar to South American fox ( Pseudalopex culpaeus ) or Yagan dog, during the conquest of the Americas, Spanish conquistadors used Spanish Mastiffs and other Molossers in battle against the Taínos, Aztecs and Mayans.

On May 25, 1799 Baranov and 100 employees of the Russian American Company ( accompanied by their native wives ) sailed into Sitka Sound aboard the cutter Olga and sloop-of-war Konstantin of the Imperial Russian Navy ; accompanying the Russian settlers was a fleet of some 550 baidarkas, carrying 600 – 1, 000 Aleut escorts.

Captain James Barber of the British ship Unicorn, also anchored nearby, lured Shk ' awulyéil and several of his raiders aboard and placed them in the brig, subsequently exchanging them for the remaining lone Russian and 18 Aleut captives ( along with some 4, 000 sea otter pelts that had been plundered during the raid ).

The Sadlermiut are most often cited for having maintained a unique culture and dialect apart from other Inuit, similar to the Unangam ( Aleut ), which is principally the result of an adaptation to environmental and historical constraints, whereas they may have had at least some genetic influx from paleo-Eskimo groups.

The then-uninhabited islands, known to the Aleuts as Amiq, were a fabled hunting ground in Aleut oral tradition.

Aleut oral tradition states that, at one time, the western and eastern halves of Chuginadak were separate islands, and that the isthmus joining them was created by volcanic activity sometime in prehistory.

The Eskimo – Aleut languages are not demonstrably related to the other language families of North America and are believed to represent a separate, and the last, prehistoric migration of peoples from Asia.

According to Lillie McGarvey, a 20th-century Aleut leader, barabaras keep " occupants dry from the frequent rains, warm at all times, and snugly sheltered from the high winds common to the area ".

Adak Island has been the home to Aleut peoples since ancient times.

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.

Four higher Aleut people had been executed.

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

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.

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