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ALEUTS

(Subgroups include UNANGA and ALUTIIQ)
A mainly Orthodox people in southern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. The first modern Orthodox mission to America, headed by Fr. Joasaph Bolotov, was sent to the Aleuts in 1793. One of the missionaries, St. Herman of Alaska is their national enlightener and patron; St. Juvenaly and later St. Innocent also worked among them. From the US annexation of Alaska until the 1960s the Aleut culture was severely repressed and persecuted, but has somehow survived.
Norman Hugh Redington

General and Historical:
- Columbia Encyclopedia: --- Bartleby
- People of the Aleutian Chain Homepage: --- U. Conn.
- The Aleut: Museum exhbit. --- Smithsonian Institution
- Aleut Internment During World War II: From the Aleutian World War II National Historic Area. --- NPS
- Dorothy Jones: A Century of Servitude: --- U. Conn.
- Alaskan Orthodox Texts. A remarkable collection of texts in the Aleut, Tlingit, and Yupik languages. --- All Saints of North America, Hamilton
- A Study of Russian Orthodoxy on the Pribilof Islands: Mainly photos. --- CHOVE
- Unangan History and Culture: From the Aleutian World War II National Historic Area. --- NPS
Aleut Saints: Peter the Aleut; Yakov Netsvetov;

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