Akuugun

The Akuugun were the Unangan people of the Islands of Four Mountains, a volcanic group in the central Aleutians. Among their islands were Yunaska and Kagamil, rising from waters swept by ocean winds and currents. The people travelled and hunted by sea, drawing on the resources of the islands and surrounding waters. Russian fur traders reached the Aleutian chain in the eighteenth century, and the violence of their conquest devastated the Akuugun by the 1760s.