The last native speaker of the Aleut language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, has died at the age of 86 in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka region. The chairwoman of the regional council of the Aleut ...

City and tribal-government employees on Alaska's St. Paul Island get Oct. 28 off each year for a holiday you might not have heard of: St. Paul Aleut Independence Day. It marks the day in 1983 when ...

It's getting harder and harder for the few remaining residents of the Aleutian and Pribilof islands who speak Aleut to hold a conversation in the native Alaskan language. The number of Alaskans who ...

Road to Emmaus interviews Reader Mikhail Ivanovich, spokesman for the online native Alaskan linguistic project of All Saints of North America Church in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. RTE: Mikhail, will ...

When Nicolai Galaktionoff passed away last month, a piece of Alaska left with him. Galaktionoff, 87, died in Unalaska on May 21, and though he'll be remembered for many great accomplishments, perhaps ...

The last native speaker of the so-called Bering dialect of the Aleut language, Vera Timoshenko, has died at the age of 93 in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka region. Yevgeny Golovko, the director of the ...

In 1941, Fredericka Martin, an American medic, arrived on the remote Pribilof islands in the Bering sea with her physician husband. The couple had been brought to the islands by the US Fish and ...

Most of us don't know a lot about the Eskimo language, and we know even less about its finer details. But if we are pushed, most of us can dive into a deep recess of our memory, and bring back ...