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The second hypothesis supports the belief that the present Aleut culture is a blend of Eskimo influences from the Alaska Peninsula and the older Anagula tradition. [16] The third states that the older Anagula tradition died out and was replaced around 2500 BC. The first and second imply an 8000-year racial and cultural continuum. [17]
In the Aleut language, they are known by the endonyms Unangan (eastern dialect) and Unangas (western dialect); both terms mean "people". [a] The Russian term "Aleut" was a general term used for both the native population of the Aleutian Islands and their neighbors to the east in the Kodiak Archipelago, who were also referred to as "Pacific Eskimos" or Sugpiat/Alutiit.
Agudar ('Creator' [1]) is the creator god in Aleutian mythology. The name is also alternately rendered as Agurur, Agûģuq, Agugux, Agu'gux or Agu'gux'. Agudar is a universal force, similar to the concept of Great Spirit in other Native American religions. [2]
Aleut women are still today famed for their basketry and sewing techniques, capable of weaving grasses into watertight baskets and sewing seal gut into watertight raincoats suitable for the open ocean. Aleut society was divided into three categories: honorables, comprising the respected whalers and elders; common people; and slaves.
Shamanism differs in every culture where it is practiced, in Alaska it is centered in the animals that are common in the area. Through the use of many myths, stories, and ceremonies these animals are personified and their spirits made tangible and in turn are deeply woven within the Native Alaska people today.
The Aleutian Islands (/ ə ˈ l uː ʃ ən / ⓘ ə-LOO-shən; [2] [3] Russian: Алеутские острова, romanized: Aleutskiye ostrova; Aleut: Unangam Tanangin, "land of the Aleuts"; possibly from the Chukchi aliat, or "island")—also called the Aleut Islands, [4] Aleutic Islands, [5] or, before 1867, the Catherine Archipelago—are a chain of 14 main, larger volcanic islands and 55 ...
A barabara (Aleut: ulax̂), the traditional Aleut winter house. A barabara or barabora [1] (Russian); ulax̂, ulaagamax, ulaq, or ulas (plural) (); and ciqlluaq (Alutiiq ~ Sugpiaq) [2] [3] [4] were the traditional, main or communal dwelling used by the Alutiiq people and Aleuts, the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands.
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