And there's also a nice link in the first paragraph to the <a href="http://qenaga.org">qenaga.org</a> website :-)<br clear="all">-----------------------------<br>Andrea L. Berez<br>PhD candidate, Dept. of Linguistics<br>
University of California, Santa Barbara<br><a href="http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/">http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:42 AM, James Crippen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcrippen@gmail.com">jcrippen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The article doesn't have much content, but there's a great photo of<br>
Roy Iutzi-Mitchell looking angry about Dena'ina disappearing. Roy has<br>
been working with Dena'ina people for the last year or so, helping<br>
plan and develop their revitalization programs. Dena'ina is getting<br>
more and more press lately as Anchorage residents become aware that<br>
the land they live on is traditional Dena'ina territory.<br>
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<a href="http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11625659" target="_blank">http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11625659</a><br>
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Just underneath that article is one about the "Proud Raven" totem<br>
pole, a Tlingit pole featuring a likeness of Abraham Lincoln. This<br>
article doesn't mention the third tradition for the pole's carving,<br>
the one I heard as a kid, which is that it represents the unpaid debt<br>
for slaves which were freed by the Americans. Not very romantic, so<br>
it's not very popular. I can't interpret the names because they're too<br>
Anglicized but "Yalgeewee" probably has the Tlingit yéil /jéːɬ/<br>
"raven" in it.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11583507" target="_blank">http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11583507</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">James<br>
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