ALASKA FOR YOUR INFORMATION
&jASpi WILDLIFE REFUGE Part III of a series, TtCJPEOPLfi, The people native to thef
oiossednthe1Berinqrstrn°tniaSfiAhe-HS’ Th9y !** of Eskim°id origiSfbllU^d*to°h^|
what after the American Indian crossed b^the same^oit^^TheSileirand Eskimo’uT
guages are related but mutually unintelligible, and thei; culLres are basicaUv sim
liar but adapted to different evironements. y
villJVes were always on the sea-coast. None of their sites have been found-'
land r4+d*th'T ^ D° evidence that inland areas were commonly visited. Prom the^
^^nci certain plants were utilized for food but their staples came from the sea 1 in3
?rm sea .^mmals,. fish, sea birds, sea urchins, and mollusks. Clothing was
r°m Sl?ins and intestines of sea mammals, boats were covered from the same0
J hfUh’the' DaMesm^t*ttedChU-1»in9t“teriaiS ^ °f b°ne’ stono’ and d*iftw0°d- '*
ntn the passes or the Cham’ acting as barriers, two distinct dialects came in- '
L° b^9’ l; !;• th® Unalaska" of the eastern Aleutians and the Alaska Peninsula a '
ians ^arlv aneof ?h”LrdHWeStern-A1^.ianS- Wh2n tha Russians reached'the Aleut
nearly all of the islands were inhabited but by 1831 there were Aleuts oresent
Dn Gn^y lo is*ands and the total population was less than 2000. P
XA* outbreak of World .War II there was an Aleut village on Attu as well as" on
kfa apJ other islands farther east. Considerable movement of Aleuts took place at ;
cnat time throughout "the Chain", largely in the fox farming enterprise! The ^tu
rns weije captured by the Japanes forces in 1942 and the others were evacuated byL
t?.^he mair^and. . When the war ended the Attuans were returned and
^r soindividFFu Fnd"- 1" tha.vidla9e of Atka- Today the village numbers only 100 •
. individuals and is the single one remaining on the Refuge. The only other --
are not^r^nT Chain" ?? 3t Nikolski> Unalaska> Akutan® a"d San£lut Zse ;
no^ purely native communities. _
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