Qungutuwangq’rtua. – I have a pet. Qungutuwaq is the Alutiiq word for a tame animal. It likely began as a term for a wild animal habituated to people, but it has come to mean all kinds of pets. Tame animals, especially birds and dogs, were part of ancestral Alutiiq villages. Alutiiq people kept both eagles and crows. In 1805, Russian trader Uri Lisianski observed an eagle fly into a sod house and sit by the fire. Family members told Lisianski that the bird recognized them. When their kayaks returned from a day of fishing, the bird would fly back to the house to join them.