Announcements

• Ahtna Travel Narratives: A Demonstration of Shared Geographic Knowledge among Alaska Athabascans
  by James Kari, Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, University of Alaska Fairbanks. These travel narratives by five Ahtna experts are walking tours of nearly 1,200 miles of traditional routes and trails in the Ahtna language area, which includes the Copper River Basin and parts of the Alaska and Wrangell-St. Elias mountain ranges. The narratives are in Ahtna with interlinear translations in English. New in spring 2010. [download flier]
  
• Dene-Yeniseian pages updated
  For information about the Dene-Yeniseian languages visit the Dene-Yeniseian page.
  
• Language Blog
  The Talking Alaska blog provides reflections on Alaska's Native languages.
  

Graduate Research

Storytelling in the Yup'ik Immersion Classroom
Abby Augustine, an elementary teacher in Bethel, uses Total Physical Response Storytelling to engage her pupils in learning a second language, Central Yup'ik.

 

 

 

 

 

About the map
The map image above symbolizes in a colorful way the rich diversity of Alaska's Native languages and cultures. This image was created from a scanned image of Michael Krauss' 1982 Native Peoples and Languages of Alaska Map, a full-color wall map which is available from ANLC [ordering information]. The image file is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Use of the image for non-commercial and educational purposes is permitted, provided you cite the original author Michael Krauss and the Alaska Native Language Center. However, the image may not be altered or reproduced commercially.

More information about the history of the map can be found here.