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Hoonah – from the Tlingit phrase xunaa, meaning "leeward of the north wind". Klawock – from the Tlingit phrase ɬawa:k, the name given to a subgroup of the Tlingit tribe. Kotlik – from the Yup'ik phrase qerrulliik, whose English translation is unclear. Kwethluk – from the Yup'ik phrase kuiggluk, meaning "unnatural river".
It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First ...
The name "Dena’ina" comes from two parts: dena meaning "person" and ina, the human plural marker in Dena’ina language means "the people", and is related to the autonym for the Southern Athabaskan Navajo people "Diné." The Denaʼina name for Cook Inlet is Tikahtnu meaning "Big Water River", "Ocean River" or Nuti meaning "Saltwater."
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 explains how these Alaska Native villages came to be tracked this way. This version was updated based on Federal Register, Volume 87, dated January 28, 2022 (87 FR 4638), [1] when the number of Alaskan Native tribes entities totaled 231. The list is maintained in alphabetical order with respect to ...
The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
Their language is the Tlingit language (Łingít, pronounced [ɬɪ̀nkɪ́tʰ]), [6] Tlingit people today belong to several federally recognized Alaska Native tribes including the Angoon Community Association, Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes, [7] Chilkat Indian Village, Chilkoot Indian Association, Craig Tribal Association ...
Alaska Native Languages American Indians and Alaska Natives in Alaska. Below is a full list of the different Alaska Native or Native Alaskan peoples, who are largely defined by their historical languages (within each culture are different tribes):
The word Denaʼina is composed of the dena, meaning 'person' and the human plural suffix ina.While the apostrophe which joins the two parts of this word ordinarily indicates a glottal stop, most speakers pronounce this with a diphthong, so that the second syllable of the word rhymes with English 'nine' (as in the older spelling Tanaina