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Note: The Gwich'in place name list is currently under editorial review by Joe Matesi
The Gwich’in linguistic group is associated with south-flowing drainages in the eastern Brooks Range and Birch, Preacher, and Beaver Creeks, which flow north into the Yukon River from the Yukon-Tanana Uplands. The dataset has been researched extensively by James Kari, Adeline Raboff, Joe Matesi, and Richard Caulfield, with contributions from Walter Peters, Clarence Alexander, and Katherine Peter (Peter 1981, Kari and Peter Raboff 2011, and Matesi 2016). The dataset from Dr. Kari and Dr. Caulfield was compiled and displayed by Gerad Smith, while Joe Matesi has compiled and edited the bulk of the Gwich'in names. The Gwich'in lists were both typed from ANLA manuscripts, and received as Excel datasheets.
Please cite this page as:
Matesi, Joseph, Gerad Smith, and James Kari
2017 Gwich'in 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 Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks.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 Adeline Peter Raboff, 2011. Compilation of Yukon Flats Athabascan Place Names for Stevens Village, Beaver, Birch Creek and Fort Yukon. Fairbanks, Alaska. Dena'inaq' Titaztunt and Arivahan. Pdf Ms. ANLA.
also see:
Caulfield, Richard, Walter Peter, and Clarence Alexander 1983. Gwich'in Athabaskan Place Names of the Upper Yukon-Porcupine Region, Alaska (ADF&G Technical Paper no. 83)
Matesi, Joe, 2016. Dinjii Zhuh K’yàa Nan Goorì’ (Gwich'in Athabascan Place Names). Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Center. Book, maps, and CD with hyperlinked soundfiles.
Peter, Katherine, 1981. Arctic Village Place Names. Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Archive. Pdf Ms. ANLA.
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