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

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.

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.

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.

Masks are full of meaning in the Aleut culture.

The masks show anthropomorphic creatures that are described in Aleut language.

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.

Many words are formed from entirely different roots than in Siberian Yupik, but even the grammar has several peculiarities not only among Eskimo languages, but even compared to Aleut.

The islands are home to a majority of Alaska's Aleut population.

The Central Alaskan Yupik are by far the most numerous of the various Alaska Native groups and speak the Central Alaskan Yup ' ik language, a member of the Eskimo – Aleut family of languages.

Almost half the inhabitants are of Aleut descent-mainly from the Qagan Tayagungin tribe, and support themselves by fishing and fish processing.

Every July the town hosts a Culture Camp in which Aleut traditions such as dance, sewing Aleut dresses, playing drums, building kayaks, knot tying, and weaving are taught.

Many languages throughout North America are polysynthetic ( Eskimo – Aleut languages are extreme examples ), although this is not characteristic of all North American languages ( contrary to what was believed by 19th-century linguists ).

The " animal language " words and names in this story are a phonetic spelling of Russian spoken with an Aleut accent, for example " Stareek!

The Eskimo – Aleut languages are among the native languages of the Americas.

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.

The Eskimo – Aleut languages are affixally polysynthetic and exclusively suffixing ( with the exception of one prefix in Inuktitut which appears in demonstratives ).

This suggests that they also spoke an Eskimo – Aleut language, but one quite distinct from the forms spoken in Canada today.

Some have thought two language families, Eskimo – Aleut and Na-Dené, were distinct, perhaps the results of later migrations into the New World.

In his 1987 book Language in the Americas, while supporting the Eskimo – Aleut and Na-Dené groupings as distinct, he proposed that all the other Native American languages belong to a single language macro-family, which he termed Amerind.

Attuan, now extinct ( Bergsland 1997, p. 14 ), was a distinct dialect showing influence from both Atkan and Eastern Aleut.

In fact, the Eskimo – Aleut languages have about the same number of distinct word roots referring to snow as English does, but the structure of these languages tends to allow more variety as to how those roots can be modified in forming a single word

Despite Karana's precautions, she and the young Aleut woman meet and befriend each other.

The Aleut and Eskimo languages diverged about 2000 BC ; within the Eskimo classification, the Yupik languages diverged from each other and from the Inuit language about 1000 AD.

Eskimo – Aleut is spoken across the subarctic region from northeast Asia to Greenland, and the Uralic languages are also spoken westward as far as Scandinavia and Hungary.

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.

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

Many proposals to group these into higher-level families have been made, such as in three macrofamilies of Eskimo – Aleut, Na-Dene, and Amerind, though this scheme is rejected by nearly all specialists.

Eskimo – Aleut does not have any genetic relationship to any of the world's other language families that is generally accepted by linguists at the present time.

Eskimo – Aleut languages have a relatively small number of roots – in the case of Central Alaskan Yup ' ik around two thousand.

All Eskimo – Aleut languages have obligatory verbal agreement with agent and patient in transitive clauses, and there are special suffixes used for this purpose in subordinate clauses, which makes these languages, like most in the North Pacific, highly complement deranking.

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.

500 CE – 1000 CE, successively sweep Arctic North America while having little genetic impact on Native American populations further South, that presumably have origins that date back to the initial colonization of the Americas by modern humans from Asia ( who are the first hominins to live there ), and ancient DNA shows genetic continuity from the Thule to modern Inuit ( whose genetics are remarkably homogeneous ), dominated by the A2a, A2b, and D3 mtDNA haplotypes, while " Haplotype D2 ( 3 %), found among modern Aleut and Siberian Eskimos, was identified at a low frequency in the modern samples but not the ancient.

The most popular such proposals have been for links with Eskimo – Aleut, either alone or in the context of a wider grouping.

For example, dual number is not known in Sireniki Eskimo, while most Eskimo – Aleut language have dual, including even its neighboring Siberian Yupik relatives.

As mentioned, Sireniki is peculiar in this aspect not only among Eskimo languages, but even in the entire Eskimo – Aleut language family, even its neighboring Siberian Yupik relatives have dual.

Steegman paralleled his findings with the " Arctic Mongoloids ", particularly the " Eskimo " and " Aleut ," by claiming these " Arctic Mongoloids " have similar features in accordance with Allen's rule: a narrow nasal passage, relatively large heads, long to round heads, large jaws, relatively large bodies, and short limbs.

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.

Michif and Mednyj Aleut appear to have risen through the mixture and intermarriage of two bilingual peoples, French with Cree and Russian with Aleut.

In addition to the Ainu, other present-day hunter-gatherer societies that have remained isolated in northeast Asia and North America and whose ancestors may have contributed to the gene pool of Paleoindian are the Yukaghir, Inuit, Aleut, Koniag, Kamchadal, Chukchi, and Koryak.