The Unungan People Case Study
Case 2: The Unangan People
The Unangan people mainly engaged in cod fishing in the islands of Alaska. Fishing formed their main economic activity which they enjoyed with no disruptions until the invasion of the Russian missionaries who contributed to the killing of most of them before handing them over to the Americans through the selling of Alaska to the American administration (Sutton, 2011). The Unungan people believed in order and their political; orientation allowed for respect to family headmen from whom the headmen from the most powerful family headed a village. The administrative order of villages was highly embraced and even during periods of migration in the summer, nobody was allowed to breach the village territorial boundaries (Sutton,
The Unangan people mainly engaged in cod fishing in the islands of Alaska. Fishing formed their main economic activity which they enjoyed with no disruptions until the invasion of the Russian missionaries who contributed to the killing of most of them before handing them over to the Americans through the selling of Alaska to the American administration (Sutton, 2011). The Unungan people believed in order and their political; orientation allowed for respect to family headmen from whom the headmen from the most powerful family headed a village. The administrative order of villages was highly embraced and even during periods of migration in the summer, nobody was allowed to breach the village territorial boundaries (Sutton,