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Itelmen

[ee-tel-men]

noun

  1. a member of a small group of Paleo-Asiatic people inhabiting the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Siberia.

  2. the Chukotian language of the Itelmen people.



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No wonder the native Itelmen people once thought the volcanoes were inhabited by gomuls--ghosts who roasted whales over huge bonfires, sending forth clouds of smoke and rivers of boiling fat.

On the southern side of the peninsula, the aborigines are believed to have been distinguished by the name of Itelmen; but the signification of this word remains uncertain.

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