Atka: An Ethnohistory of the Western Aleutians (Alaska History)

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Covers the ethnographic history of the Aleuts as much as 1867, the top of the period of Russian-American Company rule.

Discussion of sources pp. 1-thirteen, prehistory pp. 14-40, ethnography pp. 41-71, Russian period pp. 72-106. Aleut terms, discussions of dialect geography passim. Appendix 3, pp. 171-185, translation of Veniaminov’s Notes at the Atkan Aleuts 1840 (in response to subject matter from Netsvetov), including transliteration and translation of the Atkan texts (1840.20-26), p. 182-185. Appendix 5, pp. 194-206, Aleut personal names for Close to, Rat, and Andreanof Islands for the second one half of the 18th century, including ca. 50 names, a few the similar as in AL747V, a few from further sources.

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