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

These days Aleuts eat their traditional food but also with the new processed foods the outside world brought in.

Many Aleuts now live across the state and not only in the Aleutians which has helped to spread the arts of their people and to better develop methods of creating their arts.

Worn for decorative reasons, and sometimes to signify social standing, reputation, and the age of the wearer, Aleuts would pierce their lower lips with walrus ivory and wear beads or bones.

This strait was used for safe passage for millennia by Aleuts and later by the Russians during their occupation of the area.

In 1788, the Russian-American Company enslaved and relocated Aleuts from Atka and Unalaska to the Pribilofs to hunt fur seals ; their descendants live on the two islands today.

Ramo is eventually killed by a pack of feral dogs ( some of the dogs joined the feral pack after the Aleuts killed their owners ).

Later the Aleuts leave, with Tutok ; the men are none the wiser of Karana's presence, but their departure also deprives her of her newfound friend.

The Aleuts panicked and broke ranks, retreating to the shore where their baidarkas waited.

The Aleuts were not taken back to their home islands, lived in inhumane conditions, were beaten, and were regulated by the Russians down to what they could eat and wear and whom they could marry.

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.

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 Aleuts hunted small sea mammals with barbed darts and harpoons slung from throwing boards.

They are not to be confused with the Aleuts, who live further to the southwest, including along the Aleutian Islands.

Under the Fur Seal Act of 1966, hunting of the seals was forbidden in the Pribilofs, with the exception of subsistence hunting by native Aleuts.

During World War II, as the Imperial Japanese Army threatened the Aleutians, the 881 Aleuts on the Pribilof islands were forcibly removed, with no more than several hours notice, to internment in abandoned salmon canneries and mines in Southeast Alaska until May 1944.

These fur trappers used Siberian Native and Alaska Natives, particularly Aleuts from the Aleutian Islands and Koniag natives from Kodiak, to hunt for sea otters and other marine mammal species for trade with China via Russia's then-exclusive inland port of trade at Kiakhta.

They are not to be confused with the Aleuts, who live further to the southwest, including along the Aleutian Islands.

Together with the surrounding settlement, Fort Ross was home to Russians ( during the 19th and early 20th century Russian subjects included Poles, Finns, Ukrainians, Estonians, and numerous other nationalities and ethnic groups of the Russian Empire ), as well as North Pacific Natives, Aleuts, Kashaya ( Pomo ), and Creoles.

She builds a home made of whale bones and even stocks a cave with provisions in case the Aleuts ever come back, so she can hide from them.

Neva was accompanied by the Ermak and two other smaller, armed sailing ships, manned by 150 promyshlenniks ( fur traders ), along with 400 – 500 Aleuts in 250 baidarkas.

Traditional arts of the Aleuts include hunting, weapon-making, building of baidarkas ( special hunting boats ), weaving, figurine making, clothing, carving, and mask making.

Given the straightforward nature of the climbing ( Alaska Grade 1, snow up to 40 degree slope ), it is possible that an earlier ascent occurred, either by native Aleuts, Russians, or other visitors.

After the arrival of missionaries in the late 18th century, many Aleuts became Christian by joining the Russian Orthodox Church.

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.

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

Hundreds more Aleuts from the western chain and the Pribilofs were evacuated by the United States government during WW2 and placed in internment camps in southeast Alaska, where many died.

That evening, hundreds of Aleuts started gathering on a mountain and marched to the Russians ' houses.

Five Russians opened fire, and Aleuts ran away.

The Aleuts surrendered.

After the incident, the Aleuts began to move from Amchitka to neighboring islands.

Aleuts constructed partially underground houses called Barabara.

Fishing, hunting and gathering were the only way Aleuts could find food.

The Aleuts use ivory in many other types of carvings.

Jewelry of the Aleuts is also specific to which region it hails from.

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 ).

Even the Christian missionaries said they were savage looking and tried to alter how the Aleuts dressed and groomed themselves.

For everything else, the Aleuts turned to the sea.

Flutes are often discovered, carved from bones in which lateral holes have been pierced ; these are thought to have been blown at one end like the Japanese shakuhachi.

It is commonly believed that C-holes ( a type and shape of pierced sound port visible on the top face or belly of string instruments ) are a definitive feature of viols, a feature used to distinguish viols from instruments in the violin family, which typically had F-shaped holes.

The earliest viols had either large, open, round, sound holes ( or even round pierced rosettes like those found on lutes and vihuelas ), or they had some kind of C-holes.

Facing the ribbon and the paper is a small guide plate ( often made of an artificial jewel such as sapphire or ruby ) pierced with holes to serve as guides for the pins.

Two flat blocks of wood each pierced with three small holes are joined with three parallel strings.

The disks are pierced with holes through which cooling water passes to carry away the heat caused by the high current.

A series of smaller pipes feed from the distribution pipe were pierced with a series of holes which pour water in the event of a fire.

This bowl is pierced with hundreds of small oval holes about the size of a thimble with hollow tubes corresponding on the outside through which the roots penetrate the ground on all sides, never, however, becoming attached to the bowl ; they are partially elastic, affording an almost imperceptible but very necessary " play " to the parent stem when struggling against the force of violent gales.

In order for the bone to attach to the skater's shoe, leather straps were strung through holes that were pierced horizontally into the bone and fastened to the skater's feet.

Top decoration, the number, shape, and placement, of sound holes, ports, pierced rosettes, etc., also varied greatly.

The thurible consists of a metal bowl ( usually with a base so it can stand upright ) into which the charcoal and incense are placed, and a lid ( often topped with a cross ), pierced by holes to allow the fragrance from the incense to escape.

The spinneret is pierced with small holes rather like a showerhead ; when the solution is forced through it, long strands of fiber come out.

An unusual structure associated with STK has been found at Gosek, south of Berlin: a large, double concentric ring of post holes pierced by gates and surrounded by a circular ditch.

One wing was pierced by 400 small holes to enable aerodynamic pressure data to be collected.

The best-known and most vivid description, though of the quite different taurobolium as it was revived in aristocratic pagan circles, is the notorious one that has coloured early scholarship, which was provided in an anti-pagan poem by the late 4th-century Christian Prudentius in Peristephanon: the priest of the Great Mother, clad in a silk toga worn cinctu Gabino, with golden crown and fillets on his head, takes his place in a trench covered by a platform of planks pierced with fine holes, on which a bull, magnificent with flowers and gold, is slain.

Stevens, a Scottish physician, performed digestive experiments with his sword-swallowing assistant ; small metal tubes, pierced with holes and filled with meat, were swallowed and after a time regurgitated, allowing Stevens to examine the extent of the digestion that had taken place.

An industrial piercing ( North America ), sometimes called scaffold piercing ( UK / IRL ) or construction piercing, is any two pierced holes connected with a single straight piece of jewelry ( compare to orbital piercing ); however, it typically refers to a double perforation of the upper ear cartilage specifically.

The tip of the lid is pierced with small holes, from which the holy water is sprinkled.

The pipe is made out of wood, metal or plastic and consists of a cylindrical tube of narrow bore ( 1: 40 diameter: length ratio ) pierced with three holes near one end, two in front and one in back.

The foot of one altar is pierced by two elliptical holes, one above the other.