Excerpted from The Native People of Alaska by Steve J ... and comes originally from the Koryak or Chukchi languages of Siberia; it appears to have been quickly adopted by the Aleut people themselves.

Languages of the Siberian indigenous peoples, especially of the people's living in the north, are at high risk now: not because the peoples are disappearing, but because their lives are changing.

Indigenous women from across the world discuss their struggles against the pollution of their ancestral lands and the ...