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

[Gary Holton]

And there is also the well-worn comment about the lack of a word for
'computer'. How many languages must fade due in part to a puristic
aversion to borrowing?

Gary



On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Andrea L. Berez <andrea.berez at gmail.com> wrote:
> And there's also a nice link in the first paragraph to the qenaga.org
> website :-)
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> Andrea L. Berez
> PhD candidate, Dept. of Linguistics
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/
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> 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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