The Eyak (Eyak: ʔi·ya·ɢdəlahɢəyu·, literally "inhabitants of Eyak Village at Mile 6") are an Alaska Native people historically located on the Copper River...
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Na-Dene languages (redirect from Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit)
Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages...
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The name Eyak comes from a Chugach Sugpiaq name (Igya'aq) for an Eyak village at the mouth of the Eyak River. The closest relatives of Eyak are the Athabaskan...
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Chiricahua Chihuahua: Chiricahua Eyak and Athabaskan together form a genealogical linguistic grouping called Athabaskan–Eyak (AE) – well-demonstrated through...
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Michael E. Krauss (section Eyak)
named after him. Krauss is known first and foremost as an Athabaskanist and Eyak language specialist, a language that became extinct in January 2008. However...
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Marie Smith Jones (category Articles containing Eyak-language text)
surviving speaker of the Eyak language of Southcentral Alaska. She was born in Cordova, Alaska, was an honorary chief of the Eyak Nation and the last remaining...
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Eyak (Igya'aq in Alutiiq; ’Iiyaaq(daat) in Eyak) is an Alaska Native Village Statistic Area within the city of Cordova, Alaska in Valdez-Cordova Census...
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The Eyak Preservation Council (EPC) is a non-profit organization based in Cordova, Alaska whose mission is to protect wild salmon habitat, indigenous Eyak...
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Yaakwdáat (meaning "the place where canoes rest"). It is derived from an Eyak name, diyaʼqudaʼt, and was influenced by the Tlingit word yaakw ("canoe,...
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and Sugpiaq Eskimo, are pejorative. Chugach villages include Chenega Bay, Eyak, Nanwalek (English Bay), Port Graham, and Tatitlek. The Chugach people have...
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