Unalaskan

The weary sojourner sustains life mostly on "canned goods," and a combination of Unalaskan winter with this variety of nutriment is sufficient to make a man impatient with liquor, or employ one of the other means by which consciousness of misfortune is blunted.

Like the processing industry, the Unalaskan fishing fleet is dominated by outsiders.

From the sea path we ran down into the little dell where Whitney Pond or Botanist Pool lay serenely, nurturing the delicate yellow anemone, two species of Arenaria, the mountain goldthread, and the Unalaskan Arnica, flowers found nowhere else on the island.

Virtually all of the resources that Unalaskans desire can be found within the Unalaska Bay area, and travel outside the Bay is much more difficult and dangerous than travel within it.

The problem surfaced in 1988 when Unalaska was left off a federal roll of recognized tribal entities, much to the surprise of Unalaskans.

When an Unalaskan came on board the Spanish vessel, he 'made the sign of the cross and said he was a Christian'.

There are three Aleut languages which, from west to east, are: Attuan, Atkan and Unalaskan. On the whole, the Atkan leans on the Unalaskan and goes with it. Unalaskan with comparatively little variation includes the Aleut subdialects of the Alaska Peninsula of the mainland.

Proficient in Church Slavonic (necessary for the psalomshchik), fluent and literate in both Unalaskan Aleut and in Russian, conversant also in English, and an Aleut-Russian himself, he wrote this lengthy letter, and others published in the same collection, in the Unalaskan Aleut language.

In the introduction to his book on Tlingit and Eskimo, Veniaminov discusses the relations between six languages of the part of North America that belonged to Russia: Unalaskan (Aleut), Kodiak (Eskimo; he gave a general description of its six main dialects spread in Alaska), Kenai (by this term he meant Tanaina and some other North Athabaskan languages: Kolchan, Ahtna, Koyukon, Ingalik-Kutchin), Iakutat (he distinguished already between Iakutat and closely related Ugalien=Eyak), Kaigan (Haida in modern terminology).

When Menovščikov described the Unalaskan form (in JaNSSSR, vol. V, 1968) only about 50 elderly people spoke the language, which may now be presumed to be extinct.

Who was talking?. From where did that un-Alaskan sound proceed?

The further fact that almost the only articulate opposition to statehood within Alaska came from representatives of or persons closely associated with absentee business interests which are the traditional betes noires in any colonial area, presented an opportunity for branding even mild questioning of the movement as "unAlaskan."

It was most unbushlike and positively unAlaskan.