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1 concern
2 snow crash
3 1838 Epidemy
4 Aleut Restitution Act of 1988
5 Typographical edits / Suggested changes
6 Anthropology and Prehistory?

[edit] concern

Well, I'm concerned about this entry.

According to local souces, http://arctic.net/~updhcvb/, the people call themselves Unangan. Shall we move most of the information to an article called Unangan? orcalover

I would think not. Aleut is the most commonly used name for them, and the one most people are familiar with. Would we put the article on Germans under Deutsch? Similarly, Apache actually means "enemy," and the people's name for themselves is Na Dineh, but it is not in common usage, so I think Apache is preferred. Certainly, the article should mention that the people calls itself/prefers to be called Unangan. Danny

Thanks. I'll try it that way. I agree that the term Aleut has a respectable history.

[edit] snow crash

I read in the Snow Crash book that the Aleuts (their territory?) suffered with U.S. nuclear testing in the 1970s? -- Error

It's true. Nuclear testing on Amchitka Island exposed people and sea life to radioactive fallout. Uyanga 14:06 May 5, 2003 (UTC)

Also, the US transplantation of Aleuts during WWII had disastrous effects on the culture and people. They were forced to abandon their homes with almost nothing but the clothes on their backs, and many died from starvation and sickness in extremely poor housing with little food and no knowledge of the foreign environment.

How about the other bits in Snow Crash about the glass knives and the using kayaks to surf from island to island? Are those true also, or were they made up for the story the way the same author Qghlm for Cryptonomicon?

[edit] 1838 Epidemy

From 1838: * Epidemic kills half of the native population in the [[Aleuts]] If this is correct, can someone please write a bit more about it here (in particular, which disease was it?) and reinsert the entry which I removed? Thanks, Common Man 10:57, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aleut Restitution Act of 1988

Reading Russian colonization of the Americas, I came across a word called Aleut, to which I was interested in finding out its definition. Upon coming to this page, I saw a red link for Aleut Restitution Act of 1988 and started researching. A little research turned into an hour of research, and I ended up with what you see now at Aleut Restitution Act of 1988. I doubt many of you would be interested, but just letting you know that that's one less red link now. Kareeser|^Talk! 05:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Typographical edits / Suggested changes

I'm correcting a few very minor typos in this entry. It's my first run at a wiki edit, so hopefully I'm playing by the rules here. There will still need to be a good amount of additional effort by someone that has domain knowledge of this subject. I too, just read snow crash (awesome) and wanted to read about the Aleuts, since I know nothing about them. Also, I'd suggest someone take a closer look at rewording some of the more subjective items in this article, but since this appears to be an active Native American project (from what I saw), I will leave this alone for now.

-- user:coreydaj