Atka: An Ethnohistory of the Western Aleutians

by Lydia Black

Covers the ethnographic history of the Aleuts up to 1867, the end of the period of Russian-American Company rule. Discussion of sources pp. 1-13, 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 on the Atkan Aleuts 1840 (based on material 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 Near, Rat, and Andreanof Islands for the second half of the 18th century, including ca. 50 names, some the same as in AL747V, some from further sources.

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