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	Eskimo-Aleut Religion
		The eskimos also had a distinctive form of engraving style.
		Later eskimo art is representational consisting of drawings of beavers or bears.
		According to the federal government 1980 census on tribal population there were 661 Aleut and Eskimo in the United States.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/nam/inuit.html (0 words)

	Eskimo-Aleut languages Information
		It consists of the Eskimo languages, known as Inuit in the north of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, as Yup'ik in the west of Alaska, and as Yuit in Siberia, on the one side, and the single Aleut language on the other.
		Eskimo is an exonym of Algonquian origin and is a dispreferred name, but is retained to speak of the Yuit-Yup'ik-Inuit as a whole.
		However, recent research suggests that Yup'ik by itself is not a valid node, or, equivalently, that the Inuit dialect continuum is but one of several languages of the Yup'ik group.
	www.bookrags.com /Eskimo-Aleut_languages (277 words)

	White Dove's Native American Indian Site Eskimo (Yupik.Inupiat/inuit)
		The Eskimo and Aleut peoples occupy the northern North American coastline and nearby islands from Prince William Sound in south central Alaska westward and northward in Alaska, across the Bering Sea to St. Lawrence Island and eastern Siberia, and around the continental Arctic coast eastward across Canada to Quebec, Labrador, and on to Greenland.
		Eskimos believed that animals would give themselves voluntarily to the hunter who acted properly toward them, and the purpose of many ritual practices was in fact to show respect for and give thanks to the spirits of animals taken for food.
		Another Eskimo belief was that the spirits of whales, after spending time in the human community, returned to their home under the sea and reported on the human behaviors they had observed to the other whales, their reports, in turn, had an effect on the spring whale hunt.
	users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/eskimo-yupik-inupiat-inuit.html (2208 words)

	Aleut
		Aleut are native to the Aleutian Islands of western Alaska.
		Living where the sea is free of ice, the Aleut developed sophisticated open-sea hunting techniques to harvest the sea otter, hair seal, sea lion, and migrating fur seals and whales.
		The Aleut also used the throwing stick, or atlatl, a long, narrow board with one end carved to fit the hand and with a small peg inserted at the other end to hold the butt of the spear shaft.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/aleut.htm (903 words)

	Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska
		Aleut hunters were taken to the islands, often without choice, on a seasonal basis, and by the 1820s permanent settlements had been established on both islands.
		The Aleut culture and population flourished on the Aleutian archipelago prior to the arrival of Russian fur hunters in the eighteenth century.
		Finally, the Aleut connection to the fur seal, severed by the collapse of the seal harvest and the disapproval of a Western, urban culture, is now being recovered by a young generation of Pribilof Aleuts.
	www.amiq.org /aleuts.html (5828 words)

	East Asian Studies 210 Notes: Eskimo/Aleut
		Eskimo groups in Siberia call themselves Yupigyt, a term which means "authentic people" (from yuk, person) It has become more customary for ethnographers to refer to them as Siberian Yupik (instead of "Siberian Eskimo").
		Aleuts are thought to be distant cousins of the Eskimo, and most linguists recognize an Eskimo-Aleut language family, whose proto-form is thought to have been spoken in northeastern Siberia over 10,000 years ago.
		The Bering and Copper Island Aleuts are the descendants of a population moved there en masse by the Russians in the 19th century from more easterly islands in the Aleutian chain.
	pandora.cii.wwu.edu /vajda/ea210/aleut.htm (1965 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Eskimo - AOL Research & Learn
		In spite of regional differences, Eskimo groups are surprisingly uniform in language, physical type, and culture, and, as a group, are distinct in these traits from all neighbors.
		They speak dialects of the same language, Eskimo, which is a major branch of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages.
		In the traditional Eskimo economy, the division of labor between the sexes was strict; men constructed homes and hunted, and women took care of the homes.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/eskimo/20051206004609990007 (730 words)

	Alaska Native Languages -- Aleut
		Aleut is one branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family.
		Aleut is a single language divided at Atka Island into the Eastern and the Western dialects.
		Although the early Russian fur trade was exploitative and detrimental to the Aleut population as a whole, linguists working through the Russian Orthodox Church made great advances in literacy and helped foster a society that grew to be remarkably bilingual in Russian and Aleut.
	www.uaf.edu /anlc/langs/al.html (289 words)

	AllRefer.com - Eskimo-Aleut (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		Eskimo-Aleut, family of Native American languages consisting of Aleut (spoken on the Aleutian Islands and the Kodiak Peninsula) and Eskimo or Inuktitut (spoken in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia).
		Aleut is the language of a few thousand people, and Eskimo is native to over 100,000 people.
		Eskimo and Aleut have enough similarities to justify the theory that they are descendants of a single ancestor language.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/E/EskimoAl.html (359 words)

	More Eskimo 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eskimos on a whale hunt use a traditonal open boat, or umiak, and modern snowmobiles.
		The Aleuts, who live in the North Pacific Ocean off the coasts of Alaska and Siberia, are closely related to the Eskimos.
		Eskimo languages have been spoken for thousands of years, but they were not written down until modern times.
	library.thinkquest.org /27518/moreeskimo.htm (412 words)

	Eskimo-Aleut. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Aleut is the language of a few thousand people, and Eskimo is native to over 100,000 people.
		Eskimo and Aleut have enough similarities to justify the theory that they are descendants of a single ancestor language.
		Phonetically, there are three main vowels in Eskimo, and from 13 to 20 consonants, the number varying according to the dialect.
	www.bartleby.com /65/es/EskimoAl.html (290 words)

	Native Americans - Aleuts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Because of their skill in hunting sea mammals, the Aleuts were exploited by Russian fur traders throughout the coastal waters of the Gulf of Alaska, sometimes as far south as California.
		The people known as the Aleuts are the native inhabitants of the islands stretching for about 1,800 km (1,100 mi) southwestward from the Alaskan mainland and now called the Aleutian Islands.
		The Aleuts were adept at harvesting resources of the sea (sea lion, seals, whales, and fish) in their skin-covered boats as well as those of the land (birds, eggs, and plants).
	www.nativeamericans.com /Aleuts.htm (381 words)

	A TEST OF METHODS FOR COLLECTING RACIAL AND ETHNIC INFORMATION
		When the multiracial category is included, the proportion of American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut drops on both panels 2 and 4.
		The measurement of American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut may not be straightforward, and information presented later supports the notion that identification as an American Indian or Alaskan Native may have a reliability problem and be sensitive to methods effects (e.g., the way the question is asked).
		People who identified themselves as Hispanic, White, Black, American Indian, Eskimo, or Aleut, or multiracial were given a list of terms describing their respective racial or ethnic group and were asked to choose which term they preferred, or to indicate whether they preferred some other term or had no preference.
	www.bls.gov /news.release/ethnic.toc.htm (3842 words)

	Alaskool - Many Tongues, Ancient Tales
		The sharp linguistic border between Aleut and Eskimo is no doubt due not to ancient separation but rather to the complete elimination of prehistoric intermediate languages by Eskimo and Aleut, which now meet on the Alaska Peninsula.
		The Yupik branch of Eskimo is a broken chain of five languages, which once must have connected from the Alaska mainland to the Chukchi Peninsula via the Seward Peninsula.
		It is proposed that the Eskimo languages on the Siberian side represent relatively minor westward movement back to and into the Chukchi Peninsula from Alaska, and that Sirenikski represents the oldest wave of that movement, Siberian Yupik the second, and Naukanski the latest.
	www.alaskool.org /language/manytongues/ManyTongues.html (3421 words)

	Eskimo-Aleut. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Aleut is the language of a few thousand people, and Eskimo is native to over 100,000 people.
		Eskimo and Aleut have enough similarities to justify the theory that they are descendants of a single ancestor language.
		Phonetically, there are three main vowels in Eskimo, and from 13 to 20 consonants, the number varying according to the dialect.
	www.bartelby.com /65/es/EskimoAl.html (0 words)

	Eskimo-Aleut languages
		It consists of the Eskimo languages, known as Inuit in the north of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland, as Yup'ik in the west of Alaska, and as Yuit in Siberia, on the one side, and the single Aleut language on the other.
		Eskimo is an exonym of Algonquian origin and is a dispreferred name, but is retained to speak of the Yuit-Yup'ik-Inuit as a whole.
		However, recent research suggests that Yup'ik by itself is not a valid node, or, equivalently, that the Inuit dialect continuum is but one of several languages of the Yup'ik group.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://articles.gourt.com/%22http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DEskimo-Aleut (0 words)

	Learn Aleut, Aleut Windows, Aleut Office, Aleut Software, Aleut Dictionary, Aleut Translation, Aleut Keyboards, Aleut ...
		Aleut is spoken by about 1,000 people in the Aleutian Islands and by a few hundred more on the Commander Islands, which belong to Russia.
		It is related to Eskimo but only distantly, the two languages being in no way mutually intelligible.
		The first alphabet for the Aleut language was developed by a Russian missionary about 1825 and was based on the Cyrillic alphabet.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Aleut.htm (0 words)

	The American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut Population
		In the last two decades, the American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut population grew rapidly.
		Census Bureau estimates and projections suggest that on July 1, 1994, the American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut population numbered 2.2 million, and that it will reach 4.3 million and just over 1 percent of the population by 2050.
		The 72 percent increase between the 1970 and 1980 censuses and the 38 percent increase between the 1980 and 1990 censuses cannot be attributed only to natural increase.
	www.census.gov /population/www/pop-profile/amerind.html (1206 words)

	Eskimo-Aleut - Research the news about Eskimo-Aleut - from HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Family of languages whose branches are Aleut, spoken by a minority in the Aleutian and neighbouring islands, and Eskimo, spoken...
		Aleut, distantly related to the Eskimo languages, consists of eastern and western dialects; today both are spoken by fewer than 400 people.
		Sharing the common language family of Eskimo- Aleut, Eskimos have adapted to harsh climates and are proficient hunters of sea mammals.
	www.highbeam.com /search.aspx?q=Eskimo-Aleut&ref_id=ency_botnm (846 words)

	The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
		The Aleut people are the native inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands, the southwestern part of the Alaskan peninsula and the off-shore islands of Shumagin.
		The Aleut District in the Kamchatka Region was established in 1932.
		Aleuts are the native inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands.
	www.eki.ee /books/redbook/aleuts.shtml (2016 words)

	Eskimo-Aleut Languages Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Also called Eskaleut (Eskaleutian, Eskaleutic), Eskimoan or Macro-Eskimo, it consists of the Eskimo languages (known as Inuit in the north of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland; as Yup'ik in the west of Alaska; and as Yuit in Siberia) on the one side, and the single Aleut language on the other.
		Eskimo is an exonym of Algonquian origin and is a deprecated name, but is retained to speak of the Yuit-Yup'ik-Inuit as a whole.
		However, recent research suggests that Yup'ik by itself is not a valid node, or, equivalently, that the Inuit dialect continuum is but one of several languages of the Yup'ik group.
	216.92.11.22 /encyclopedia/Eskimo-Aleut_languages (737 words)

	Eskimos Crystalinks
		Eskimo a general term used to refer to a number of groups inhabiting the coastline from the Bering Sea to Greenland and the Chukchi Peninsula in NE Siberia.
		Today the native food supply has been reduced through the use of firearms, but, as a result of increased contact with other cultures, the Eskimo are no longer completely dependent on their traditional sources of sustenance.
		Among some Eskimo groups the snow hut was used as a winter residence.
	www.crystalinks.com /eskimos.html (1108 words)

	Saving Aleut: Linguist begins effort to preserve native Alaskan language
		Aleut is one of 3,000 to 3,500 languages in danger of vanishing before the end of the 21st century.
		Aleut, or Unangam Tunuu, is part of the Eskimo-Aleut family of languages.
		Aleut is both a written and oral language.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-06/uow-sal062403.php (856 words)

	2006-2007 UAF Catalog
		Eskimo languages are spoken by far northern people from the northeastern tip of Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, to East Greenland.
		The Eskimo languages include the four Yupik languages of Alaska and Siberia as well as Inuit, the Alaska sector of which is called Inupiaq.
		Eskimo languages are the linguistic heritage of more than half of Alaska's Native population.
	www.uaf.edu /catalog/current/programs/eskimo.html (252 words)

	Native Americans - Eskimo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eskimos along the Pacific coast probably obtained much of their food by fishing for salmon, while the Central Eskimos of Canada subsisted mainly on caribou.
		The family of Native American languages consisting of Aleut (spoken on the Aleutian Islands and the Kodiak Peninsula) and Eskimo (spoken in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Siberia).
		Aleut is the language of fewer than one thousand people, and Eskimo is native to almost 100,000 people.
	www.nativeamericans.com /Eskimo.htm (2117 words)

	Eskimo-Aleut Languages - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Attempts to classify Native American languages have resulted in the conservative identification of more than 150 families.
		The native people, known as Aleuts, belong to the Eskimo-Aleut language family and are generally classified ethnologically as Native North Americans....
		Aleut, native of the Aleutian Islands, belonging to the Eskimo-Aleut language family (also known as Inuit-Aleut), and usually classified as Native...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Eskimo-Aleut_Languages.html (134 words)

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