The Aleuts These hardy seafarers have lived in the Aleutian Islands for 3,000 years, but their numbers are rapidly dwindling. They are now known to be a southern branch of the Eskimo ...

Native Alaskans are divided into three broad groups: the Aleuts, the Inuit, and the many different Indian tribes. The Aleuts, who call themselves Unangan, lived in the Aleutian Islands off the ...

Used with permission Alaska's indigenous people, who are jointly called Alaska Natives, can be divided into five major groupings: Aleuts, Northern Eskimos (Inupiat), Southern Eskimos (Yuit ...

St Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts and Apostle to America (in the world John Popov-Veniaminov), was born on August 26, 1797 in the village of Anginsk in the Irkutsk diocese ...

In 1794, answering a call for missionaries to preach the Gospel to the Aleuts, he came to the New World with the first Orthodox mission to Alaska. He settled on Spruce Island, which he called New ...