missionaries traveled by ship and then by kayak to bring Orthodox Christianity to the native Aleuts and Eskimos throughout Alaska. The major reason Orthodox Christianity is so little known in most of the United States is that most of the people who originally settled America were from Western Europe, not from Greece, Russia, or the Middle East. It was not until late in the 1800s that immigrants from these countries began to arrive in numbers and to bring with them their Orthodox Faith. Thus the Orthodox