Dena'ina (and Tlingit, sorta) in the news

[Andrea L. Berez]

And there's also a nice link in the first paragraph to the qenaga.orgwebsite :-)
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Andrea L. Berez
PhD candidate, Dept. of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/


On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:42 AM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:

> The article doesn't have much content, but there's a great photo of
> Roy Iutzi-Mitchell looking angry about Dena'ina disappearing. Roy has
> been working with Dena'ina people for the last year or so, helping
> plan and develop their revitalization programs. Dena'ina is getting
> more and more press lately as Anchorage residents become aware that
> the land they live on is traditional Dena'ina territory.
>
> http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11625659
>
> Just underneath that article is one about the "Proud Raven" totem
> pole, a Tlingit pole featuring a likeness of Abraham Lincoln. This
> article doesn't mention the third tradition for the pole's carving,
> the one I heard as a kid, which is that it represents the unpaid debt
> for slaves which were freed by the Americans. Not very romantic, so
> it's not very popular. I can't interpret the names because they're too
> Anglicized but "Yalgeewee" probably has the Tlingit yéil /jéːɬ/
> "raven" in it.
>
> http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11583507
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
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