Hi...A�ng ( hello in Unangan)! Thanks for visiting my profile. To give you a more inside depth about me, I'm part-Haida, Aleut and Sakha/Yakut. I'm from The Sakha Republic (formerly Yakutia or The Yakut Republic) in Russia. It's the largest Republic in Siberia, larger than India in area. It's a region wealthy in natural resources, both historically and presently of great importance tp Russia's economy. The capital Yakutsk is a reminder of this as many of the buildings are dedicated to the areas wealth of Diamonds. The Aldan region is known as this area's Klondike for the wealth of Gold it contains. Huge coal reserves lie to south of the capital and oil and gas has been discovered recently. This of course is on top of the extensive forests that cover the region.My Mom is part Slavic Russ and part-Haida and Aleut and My dad is part Slavic Russ and part-Sakha. I speak both Sakha and Unangan ( the languague of the Aleuts) and a little of Haida. Speaking Unangan isn't easy, at least not for me. There's a distinction between dialects in the Aleutian Chain and the Pribilof Islands. There also is a distinction between how a student or an adult pronounces a word and how it's pronounced by an elder. Middle-aged Unangans can speak the language, but few can read or write it. Some adults in their mid-30s can speak and write some Aleut; many cannot speak Aleut in whole sentences.The Haida people are a native tribe of British Columbia, Canada.In British Columbia ,Canada the Haidas live on the Queen Islands, aslo known as Haida Gwaii which means artistic hands. There are three main villages of the Haida people, two are on the Queen Charlotte Islands and one is on Hydaburg in Alaska which is west of Ketchikan and South of Sitka, Alaska.About the Aleuts or Aleutians as it's also what the Aleuts are referred to as well, according to some archeologists, the Aleut people inhabited the Aleutian Islands for over 70 centuries. They subsisted in relative peace until the 18th century when Russian fur traders came to harvest pelts from the region's abundant sea mammal population. At first, the Aleuts resisted the invasion, even resorting to warfare, but were eventually subjugated by the foreigners and forced to hunt furs. In the late 1700's, the traders found the Pribilof Islands, to the north, were also a rich source of hides, and forced a group of Aleuts to move there to hunt for them. Today, the descendants of those first hunters still live on the two main islands, St. Paul and St. George. The Aleuts lives were once again interrupted during World War II when Japanese forces invaded and occupied Attu and Kiska Islands on the western most end of the Aleutian chain. The U.S. Government evacuated most of the people from the Aleutian region and relocated them to interment camps in Southeast Alaska where many of them died due to wretched living conditions. The government began paying back the internment victims with money from the Aleut Restitution Act passed by Congress in 1988. This timeline of the Unangan is a record of written history. All events have impacted and influenced where we are today. It also helps mold us in the direction we are headed tomorrow.Aleuts have lived on the Aleutian Islands for thousands of years. The oldest known site is believed to be more than 8,000 years old. Because the oldest sites are on the eastern Aleutian and the younger sites in the west, anthropologists currently believe that the Aleutians were settled by people who traveled outward from the Alaska Peninsula. Aleuts are more closely related to The Inuits of Canada and Greenland than to other Native groups, but the Aleut language broke off from the Eskimo language tree far back in the past. The people of the Atka region called themselves Unangas, but all other Aleut subgroups called themselves Unangan. In addition, each group was divided into a number of different tribes, such as the Qawalangin of Unalaska. The eastern limit for Unangan was Port Moller on the Alaska Peninsula. The Russians gave the name Aleuts to all the Native peoples of the Aleutians, Kodiak and up along the Alaska Peninsula, resulting in confusion even today. Because of this, the Yupik people bordering Unangan territory also became known as Aleuts, or in Yupik, 'Alutiq.'About the Yakuts, The Yakut people live in Siberia in the basin of the Middle Lena River and the Aldan and Vilyuy rivers. Some Yakut people also lived farther north. It's an area of primarily taiga vegetation. The country is partly mountainous and partly lowland. The northern area is a tundra region. The climate is dry, with long and severe winters. The vegetation consists predominantly of larch, with some birch and pine. The animal life includes squirrel, Siberian ferret, ermine, hare, fox, bear,wolverine, elk, blue fox, wild reindeer, and musk deer. Fish are also abundant.In a number of ways, the Sakha people were different from the neighboring Siberian peoples. Our language belongs to the Northern Turkic group of the Turkic branch of the Altaic language stock. Furthermore, the Sahkha were primarily pastoralists, whereas their neighbors were hunters and fishers. For these reasons, the traditional theory of the origin of the Yakut/Sakha is that they migrated from the Lake Baikal region in either the tenth or the thirteenth century. Recent Russian theorists, such as Okladnikov and Tokarev, feel, however, that although the southern elements are undeniable, racial and linguistic evidence indicates that the Yakut/Sakha are indigenous to the area of the middle Lena.In the seventeenth century, the Sakha Republic was contacted and annexed by Russia, and during the eighteenth century, the area served as a transit camp and highway for freight to newly-annexed Siberian lands. Russian settlers moved into the area in the late eighteenth century, but it should be noted that Russians have never constituted a very large proportion of the population. In the nineteenth century, Russia established convict settlements, and political exiles came to the Sakha area. With the establishment of the Soviet regime in 1919 the area became known then as the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The Word Sakha in the Sakha languague means " the People".About the history of Alaska:The Name: "Alaska" came from an Aleut word for "great land," though some believe the Aleut word meant "mainland," referred to it by those residing on the Alaska Peninsula. Scientist and surveyor William Healey Dall wrote in 1870: "This name, now applied to the whole of our new territory, is a corruption, very far removed from the original word called by the natives Al-ak-shak or Al-ay-ek-sa. From Alayeksa the name became Alaksa, Alashka, Aliaska, and finally Alaska. We have, then Alaska for the territory, Aliaska for the peninsula."Alaska today refers to the entire state as well as the Peninsula. "Alyeska" is still around, though, as the name of a ski resort in Girdwood, as well as the name of the Anchorage consortium overseeing the trans-Alaska pipeline company.Other names for Alaska:Territory of Baranov, for Alexander Baranov, the early Russian leader on this continent.Russian America, before it was purchased by the United States in 1867.Seward's Folly, or Seward's Icebox, for Secretary of State William Seward, who proposed the often-ridiculed purchase and the official acceptance of the name "Alaska."The Alaskan Purchase: William Henry Seward was secretary of state under President Abraham Lincoln when he began negotiating a deal for the United States to buy Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million--or 2 cents an acre. Lincoln appointed him secretary of state in 1861. During Lincoln's presidency, he began negotiating the purchase of Alaska, then Russian America. Zachary Kent, in "William Seward: the Mastermind of the Alaska Purchase," reports how Seward invited senators to dinner parties at his home. According to Kent, "While the senators enjoyed fine food and wine, Seward described how beautiful Russian America was reported to be."The purchase agreement was signed by Seward on March, 30, 1867, and approved by the U.S. Senate May 27, 1867. President Andrew Johnson signed the final treaty the