Interview by Anna Smirnova. English-language version by Sam Breazeale. In early October, an 86-year-old man named Gennady Yakovlev died in the village of Nikolskoye on Russia’s Bering Island.

The last native speaker of the Aleut language in Russia, Gennady Yakovlev, has died at the age of 86 in Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka region. The chairwoman of the regional council of the Aleut ...

It's getting harder and harder for the few remaining residents of the Aleutian and Pribilof islands who speak Aleut to hold a conversation in the native Alaskan language. The number of Alaskans who ...

When Nicolai Galaktionoff passed away last month, a piece of Alaska left with him. Galaktionoff, 87, died in Unalaska on May 21, and though he'll be remembered for many great accomplishments, perhaps ...

City and tribal-government employees on Alaska's St. Paul Island get Oct. 28 off each year for a holiday you might not have heard of: St. Paul Aleut Independence Day. It marks the day in 1983 when ...