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Aleuts

LC control no.sh 85003361
LC classificationE99.A34
Topical headingAleuts
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Variant(s)Unangan
Unangas
Unangax̂
See alsoEskimos--Alaska
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Found inTurner, L.M. An Aleutian ethnography, 2008: p. xiii (the Association of Unangan/Unangas Educators has urged the abandonment of the term Aleut; the association stated that Elders often use 'Aleut' but want to hear us say Unangan (Eastern Aleutian Islands) or Unangas (Western Aleutian Islands))
Black, L. Aleut art : unangam aguqaadangin, unangan of the Aleutian Archipelago, 1982.
Sertori, T. First peoples of the Arctic : Unangan of Aleutian Islands, Inuit of Canada and Greenland, Sami of Sapmi, 2009.
Lost villages of the Eastern Aleutians, 2014: page vii (Aleut and Unangax̂ (with its grammatical and regional variations) are used somewhat interchangeably, but with a tendency to employ Aleut in contexts where that word was historically used and Unangax̂ at other times; Unangan, although typographically convenient and easier to pronounce, is the eastern plural and not the collective noun)