Unangan

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Unangan are the Indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, and parts of the Alaska Peninsula, known for their maritime culture and rich seafaring traditions.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Unangan canonical 5
Unangax̂ 4
Atkan Aleut 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Native people of Alaska
ethnic group
affectedBy World War II Aleut relocation
colonizedBy Russian Empire
United States of America
surface form: United States
country Russia
United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRegion Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples
surface form: Northwest Coast and Arctic borderlands

Subarctic
culturalRevitalization language preservation efforts
traditional arts revival
experienced Russian fur trade exploitation
hasAlternativeName Aleut
hasAutonym Unangan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Unangan Tanangin

Unangan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Unangax̂
inhabit Alaska Peninsula
Aleutian Islands
Commander Islands
Pribilof Islands
knownFor kayak technology
maritime culture
seafaring traditions
language Unangam Tunuu
languageFamily Eskimo–Aleut languages
relatedEthnicGroup Alutiiq
Inuit
Yupik
religion Russian Orthodox Church
surface form: Russian Orthodox Christianity

traditional animist beliefs
traditionalArt bentwood hunting hats
ivory carving
sea lion gut parkas
traditionalDiet fish
marine mammals
seabirds
shellfish
traditionalEconomy fur seal hunting
sea otter hunting
traditionalHousing semi-subterranean sod houses
traditionalRegion Bering Sea
Northern Pacific Ocean
surface form: North Pacific Ocean
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
marine hunting
traditionalWatercraft iqyax
traditionalWatercraftType baidarka
writingSystem Cyrillic script
surface form: Cyrillic alphabet

Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Aleut alsoKnownAs Unangan
Fox Islands indigenousPeople Unangan
Alaska Natives hasSubgroup Unangan
this entity surface form: Unangax̂
Unangan hasAutonym Unangan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Unangax̂
Unangan hasAutonym Unangan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Unangan Tanangin
Unangas hasAutonym Unangan
this entity surface form: Unangax̂
Unangas hasAutonym Unangan
Unalaska Island ethnicGroup Unangan
Unangan people nativeName Unangan
this entity surface form: Unangax̂
Unangan people nativeName Unangan
Unangam Tunuu hasDialect Unangan
this entity surface form: Atkan Aleut