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Aleut

noun
1.
A member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska.  Synonym: Aleutian.
2.
A community of Native Americans who speak an Eskimo-Aleut language and inhabit the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska.
3.
The language spoken by the Aleut.



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"Aleut" Quotes from Famous Books



... proper materials for a heavier lance-shaft, or at least whose environment is prejudicial to the use of such a weapon. Just as soon as we pass Mount St. Elias going southward, the throwing-stick, plus the spear or dart of the Eskimo and the Aleut, gives place to the harpoon with a long, heavy, cedar shaft, weighing 15 or 20 pounds, whose momentum from both hands of the Indian, without the throw-stick, exceeds that of the Eskimo and Aleut darts and harpoons, with the additional velocity imparted by the throwing-stick. ...
— Throwing-sticks in the National Museum • Otis T. Mason



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