<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks for the links, James. "Looking angry?" Well, maybe looking serious! By the way, I was wearing my blue "Lingít Xh'éináxh yoo xh'ala.átgi" vest!</div><div>Roy Mitchell</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> James Crippen <jcrippen@GMAIL.COM><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ATHAPBASCKAN-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, December 7, 2009 9:42:42 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Dena'ina (and Tlingit, sorta) in the news<br></font><br>
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><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11625659">http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11625659</a></span><br><br>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><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11583507">http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11583507</a></span><br><br>Cheers,<br>James<br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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