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The Dena’ina linguistic group is associated with the Susitna and Matanuska river drainages, the western Kenai Peninsula, the southern Alaska Range and Lake Iliamna. Jim Kari has produced and translated this list through multiple years of interviews, with assistance from James Fall, Alan Boraas, and Priscilla Russell Kari, including a large body of names provided by Shem Pete and Peter Kalifornski. Gerad Smith has compiled various lists published, including Kari and Boraas 1991, and Kari and Fall 2016. The lists were typed in from Shem Pete's Alaska and A Dena'ina Legacy, and georeferenced from an Excel datasheet containing names in the southwest associated with Lake Clark. The final compilation was edited by Kari.
Please cite this page as:
Kari, James and Gerad Smith
2017 Dena'ina Place Names. The Web Atlas of Alaskan Dene Place Names, Version 1.2. February 1
Smith, Gerad M.
2020. Historical Linguistic and Ethno-Geographic Perspectives of the Alaskan Dene. In Ethnoarchaeology of the Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks.
Bibliography:
Kari, James, and Alan Boraas (editors), 1991. A Dena’ina Legacy-K’tl’egh’I Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornski. Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Archive.
Kari, James, and James A. Fall, 2016. Shem Pete’s Alaska: The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena’ina 3rd Edition). University of Alaska Press.
see also:
Evanoff, Karen E., 2010. Dena'ina Ełnena, A Celebration. National Park Service.
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