Jolene Sutherland, left, and Dena’ina elder Helen Dick at a Kenai Peninsula College Dena’ina language class in 2014. Dick is one of the few Dena’ina language speakers around who learned the language ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Alaska Office of the Smithsonian's Arctic Studies Center hosted the Dena'ina Language Institute from October 4-8, 2010 at the Living Our ...

Igiugig's place name sign post, which has the region's community names in Yup'ik, with English translations below. Jan. 18, 2023. (Isabelle Ross/KDLG) The Bristol Bay Native Corporation is offering ...

"The Dena'ina language has been spoken in Southcentral Alaska for at least the past one thousand years. Dena'ina, like all Indigenous languages of Alaska, was communicated orally until an alphabet was ...

The Anchorage Park Foundation hosted a ceremony to mark the completion of the first sign in its Indigenous Place Making project at Westchester Lagoon Tuesday. The sign on a newly-constructed plaza ...

"The whole thing was written in Dena'ina on the left side and on the right side was English," Ross said. "It just blew me away - I never really heard it, I never really thought about the language and ...

At a spot along the Anchorage’s Cook Inlet coastline known as Point Woronzof, a bit of Indigenous history has been reclaimed. A decorative signpost ceremoniously dedicated last week displays the ...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) - Near Anchorage’s Ship Creek, a new bronze statue of an elder named Olga, a Dena’ina matriarch from the village of Eklutna, stands and overlooks land that was once a prosperous ...