Editing Aleuts (section)

===After contact with Russia===
[[File:Tikhanov - Aleut in Festival Dress in Alaska (1818).png|thumb|left|''Aleut in Festival Dress in Alaska'', watercolor by [[Mikhail Tikhanov]], 1818]]
After the arrival of [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]] [[missionary|missionaries]] in the late 18th century, many Aleuts became Christian. Of the numerous Russian Orthodox congregations in Alaska, most are majority Alaska Native or Native Alaskan in ethnicity. One of the earliest Christian martyrs in North America was Saint [[Peter the Aleut]].

Russian traders "took Aleut women and children hostage" to force Aleut men to hunt foxes and sea otters so the Russians could have their pelts, and often additionally enslaved Aleut men.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chandonnet |first=Ann |title=Alaska's Native Peoples |publisher=Arctic Circle Enterprises |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-933837-14-7 |location=Anchorage |page=23}}</ref>
[[File:Aleouty.jpg|thumb|Aleuts. Ethnographic description of the peoples of the [[Russian Empire]] by Gustav-Fyodor Khristianovich Pauli (1862)]]

====Recorded uprising against the Russians====
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In the 18th century, Russia ''[[promyshlenniki]]'' traders established settlements on the islands. There was high demand for the furs that the Aleuts provided from hunting. In May 1784, local Aleuts revolted on Amchitka against the Russian traders. (The Russians had a small trading post there.) According to the Aleuts, in an account recorded by Japanese castaways and published in 2004, otters were decreasing year by year. The Russians paid the Aleuts less and less in goods in return for the furs they made. The Japanese learned that the Aleuts felt the situation was at crisis. The leading Aleuts negotiated with the Russians, saying they had failed to deliver enough supplies in return for furs. Nezimov, leader of the Russians, ordered two of his men, Stephanov ({{Lang|ja|ステッパノ}} {{Transliteration|ja|Suteppano}}) and Kazhimov ({{Lang|ja|カジモフ}} {{Transliteration|ja|Kazimofu}}) to kill his mistress Oniishin ({{Lang|ja|オニイシン}} {{Transliteration|ja|Oniishin}}), who was the Aleut chief's daughter, because he doubted that Oniishin had tried to dissuade her father and other leaders from pushing for more goods.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}

After the four leaders had been killed, the Aleuts began to move from Amchitka to neighboring islands. Nezimov, leader of the Russian group, was jailed after the whole incident was reported to Russian officials.<ref name="kodayu">Yamashita, Tsuneo. ''Daikokuya Kodayu''(Japanese), 2004. Iwanami, Japan {{ISBN|4-00-430879-8}}</ref> (According to {{nihongo|[[Hokusa bunryaku]]|[[:ja:北槎聞略|北槎聞略]]|lead=yes}}, written by [[Katsuragawa Hoshū]] after interviewing [[Daikokuya Kōdayū]].)