Island of the Blue Dolphins

In Chapter Two, the Chief warns his people about befriending the Russian hunters based upon something that had happened previously. It was not the same group of hunters, but he didn't trust them none-the-less. We are not given any other details.

That night my father warned everyone in the village of Ghalas-at against visiting the camp. 'The Aleuts come from a country far to the north,' he said. ‘Their ways are not ours nor is their language. They have come to take otter and to give us our share in many goods which they have and which we can use. In this way shall we profit. But we shall not profit if we try to befriend them. They are people who do not understand friendship. They are not those who were here before, but they are people of the same tribe that caused trouble many years ago.'