Garry Njootli and Lou Yost, during a break at the Alaska Native Place Names Workshop, Anchorage, Alaska, April 29, 2015. Njootli is the Yukon Toponymist, responsible for reviewing place name submissions sent to the Government…Read More
Attendees of the Alaska Native Place Names Workshop enjoyed talking about current projects and catching up with others in the field. Here Hiroko Ikuta, a subsistence resource specialist for the Alaska Department of Fish and…Read More
Ron Chambers and Dr. Christine Schreyer during a break at the Alaska Native Place Names Workshop, Anchorage, April 29, 2015. Chambers sits on the Yukon Heritage Resources Board and Schreyer is an associate professor of…Read More
John Ross, Alaska Historical Commission member, gave a welcome in his native language, Dena’ina. “Our Alaska Native place names are coming back. We have received our place names from our ancestors. For thousands of years…Read More
Gary Holton, Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Francisca Demoski, Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) Land Manager, organized the Alaska Native Place…Read More