June McGlashan - Aleut

"Aleut, self-names Unangax̂ and Sugpiaq, a native of the Aleutian Islands and the western portion of the Alaska Peninsula of northwestern North America. The name Aleut derives from the Russian; the people refer to themselves as the Unangax̂ and the Sugpiaq." - Britannica 

"I used to think that my poetry was inadequate to other writers. Abstract readers would label my work "pigeon talk." It isn't. People actually talk as I write. The Aleut-language sentences is sometimes backwards to English...There are many people who influence my poetry: the people who live in Akutan, our ancestors who left legendary stories to write about, and my mother and family who were always the backbone to my writings. "

Poem - The Island of Women