Aleut– a member of a people of the Aleutian and Shumagin islands and the western part of Alaska Peninsula.
Definition 2- the language of the Aleuts
What you pawn i will redeem by Sherman Alexie
When I got to the wharf, I ran into three Aleut cousins, who sat on a wooden bench and stared out at the bay and cried.
These Aleuts smelled like salmon, I thought, and they told me they were going to sit on that wooden bench until their boat came back.
The narrator was trying to describe a certain kind of Indian froma part of Alaska, which links to the second sentence when he states these Aleuts smelled like salmon.
