Alutiiq people
thumb|Salmon drying. Alutiiq village, Old Harbor, Alaska|Old Harbor, [[Kodiak Island. Photographed by N. B. Miller, 1889]]
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- AlutiiqSugpiat (pl)Sugpiaq (sg) Sugpiak (dual)
- Ethnic group.image
- 220px
- Ethnic group.caption
- A Sugpiaq dancer
- Ethnic group.population
- 4,000-12,000
- Ethnic group.region1
- United States (Alaska)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- >4,000
- Ethnic group.languages
- Sugcestun, English
- Ethnic group.religions
- Orthodox Church in America, traditional religion
- Ethnic group.related
- Yup'ik, Aleuts
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- AlutiiqDancer.jpg
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12 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- Contemporary nations
- Culture
- Fishing and subsistence
- Housing
- Cultural arts
- Language
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Salmon drying. Alutiiq village, Old Harbor, Alaska|Old Harbor, [[Kodiak Island. Photographed by N. B. Miller, 1889]]
The Alutiiq (pronounced in English; from Promyshlenniki Russian Алеутъ, "Aleut"; plural often "Alutiit"), also called by their ancestral name ' ( or ; plural often "Sugpiat"), as well as Pacific Eskimo or Pacific Yupik', are a Yupik peoples, one of eight groups of Alaska Natives that inhabit the southern-central coast of the region.