Aleut Subsistence

Unangax & Alutiiq(Sugpiaq).(2008).Retrieved November 18, 2009, from Alaska Native Heritage Center:http://www.alaskanative.net/en/main_nav/education/culture_alaska/unangax/

The Aleut people live on islands near the ocean. Most of their food comes from the sea. They would go out in their baidarkas or baidars and go fishing for fish and other sea mammals. The Aleut people were very crafty when it came to subsistence. Now days they use nets, traps, and weirs, but in the olden days they used wooden hooks, kelp and sinew to fish. Villages were/are located at the mouths of streams so they could take advantage of freshwater and salmon runs.
Today Aleuts still go fishing and hunting for the different sea and land mammals for food. This is still a way of life but they use modern technology.