St. Paul Island revives Aleut language, culture

City and tribal-government employees on Alaska’s St. Paul Island get Oct. 28 off each year for a holiday you might not have heard of: St. Paul Aleut Independence Day.
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It marks the day in 1983 when Saint Paul islanders gained their freedom from the federal government. Various U.S. agencies had been running the island’s fur seal harvest and economy for decades, leaving the locals as little more than wards of the state.
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