Aleksey Mironovich Yachmenev (russian: Алексей Миронович Ячменев; 1866–1937) was an

Aleut The Aleuts ( ; russian: Алеуты, Aleuty) are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, which are located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. Both the Aleut people and the islands are politically divided between the U ...

chief who lived in Unalaska. Along with

Leontiy Sivtsov Leontiy Ivanovich Sivtsov (russian: Леонтий Иванович Сивцов; 1872–1919) was a church reader who lived in Unalaska. Along with Aleksey Yachmenev, who like Sivtsov was Aleut himself, Sivtsov accompanied Waldemar Jochelson Vla ...

, Yachmenev accompanied

Waldemar Jochelson Vladimir Ilyich Jochelson (russian: Владимир Ильич Иохельсон) (January 14 (New Style, N.S. January 26), 1855, Vilnius - November 2, 1937, New York City) was a Russian ethnography, ethnographer and researcher of the indigenous ...

on his 1909-1910 ethnological studies on the Aleut. His son, John Yatchmeneff, wrote down the texts for

John P. Harrington John Peabody Harrington (April 29, 1884 – October 21, 1961) was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the indigenous peoples of California. Harrington is noted for the massive volume of his documentary output, most of which h ...

's 1941 work on the

Aleut language Aleut () or ''Unangam Tunuu'' is the language spoken by the Aleut living in the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Commander Islands, and the Alaska Peninsula (in Aleut , the origin of the state name Alaska). Aleut is the sole language in the ...

References

* Bergsland, Knut (1994). Aleut Dictionary = Unangam Tunudgusii: an unabridged lexicon of the Aleutian, Pribilof, and Commander Islands Aleut language. Fairbanks, AK: Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska. . pg. viii 1866 births 1937 deaths 19th-century Native Americans 20th-century Native Americans Alaska Native people Aleut people People from Unalaska, Alaska People of the Alaska Territory {{alaska-bio-stub