  aleut people () () are the indigenous people of the aleutian islands of alaska, united states and kamchatka krai, russia. ==name== according to georgy a. menovshchikov (Ð. Ð. ÐÐµÐ½Ð¾Ð²ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ¾Ð²), the name aleut comes from the aleut word allÃ­thuh, meaning "community."according to g. menovshchikov; quoted in  according to american historian and ethnologist hubert howe bancroft and later edward j. vajda, the term aleut (rus. Ð°Ð»ÐµÑÑ) was brought by the russians, probably by extending the kamchatka village name of alyut eastward (the koryaks who lived there, called alyutor (own name alutal'u, rus. Ð°Ð»ÑÑÐ¾ÑÑÑ), were marine hunters like the aleuts).the works of hubert howe bancroft, volume xxxiii: history of alaska 1730-1885. san francisco, 1886 (p. 106)edward j. vajda, the aleut a regional self-denomination is , unangan or unanga,  russian fur traders gave the name aleut to the unangan in the mid-18th century. this term was adopted by other europeans who learned from the russians. the unangan aleuts are not to be confused with the alutiiq, a nearby southern yupik group, who were also referred to as "aleuts" by the russians, and are still often called thus today. ivan veniaminov lived amongst the indigenous people of the fox islands in alaska from 1824 to 1834, extensively studying the language and the people. he learned they called themselves unangan, writing in his journal, "the inhabitants of these islands, called 'aleuts' by the russian
Alaska_Native_ethnic_groups Aleuts Ethnic_groups_in_Russia Indigenous_small-numbered_peoples_of_the_North,_Siberia_and_the_Far_East Native_American_history_of_Alaska People_from_Kamchatka_Krai