Forsaken island. There are about 15,000 Aleuts in the world today, the overwhelming majority of whom live in Alaska. In Russia, only 300 Aleuts remain, making them one of the smallest indigenous ...

The Aleuts were interned against their will for the duration of the war, long after the Japanese were routed out of Alaska, and were largely neglected by the very government that said it was ...

The Pribilovian Aleuts were taken to two camps on opposing sides of Funter Bay, near Juneau -- the people from St. Paul went to an abandoned cannery, and those from St. George to a one-time gold mine.

The Aleuts were a relatively long-lived people with a considerable proportion of the population more than 60 years of age. Traveling with the Harriman Expedition, Grinnell noticed the ...

They are the 881 Aleuts from Alaska who were held for three years. MPR News. The other WWII American-internment atrocity. John Smelcer, NPR. February 21, 2017 8:08 AM. Share.

The Aleuts, who continue their seafaring lifestyle, are particularly vulnerable to radiation-contaminated fish and marine mammals, and radiation that might spread through the Bering Sea, ...

The Aleuts are an indigenous people that live on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, in the Kamchatka Region — more specifically, on the Commander Islands (Bering and Medny islands) ...

It’s unrealistic to suggest Juneau could have been a temporary refuge for the Aleuts. Adding housing for that many people would have been an impossible demand on a city which had a population of ...

Cindy Dyson’s debut novel for adult readers, “And She Was,” is one of contrasting cultures and psyches, and arguably the most striking dissimilarities are those involving survival. But this ...