Definition. Night leg cramps, also called nocturnal leg cramps, are painful, involuntary spasms, aching or contractions of muscles in your legs. In most cases, night leg cramps involve your calf muscles, but muscles in your feet or thighs may cramp as well.1  Causes.ight leg cramps, also called nocturnal leg cramps, are painful, involuntary spasms, aching or contractions of muscles in your legs.
Tlingit and neighboring peoples. The greatest territory historically occupied by the Tlingit extended from the Portland Canal along the present border between Alaska and British Columbia, north to the coast just southeast of the Copper River delta in Alaska.
Because of this, the Yupik people bordering Unangan territory also became known as Aleuts, or in Yupik, 'Alutiq.' Today, the Aleut inhabit the Aleutian archipelago, a 1,300-mile-long volcanic island arc extending from the Alaska Peninsula west nearly to Kamchatka.t is thought there were originally nine named sub-divisions of the Aleut people. The Russians gave the name Aleuts (originally from the Koryak or Chukchi languages of Siberia) to all the Native peoples of the Aleutians, Kodiak and up along the Alaska Peninsula, resulting in confusion even today.