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This list of indigenous Hän place names and locations was compiled by Willie Juneby and Dr. John Ritter. The information draws on numerous first hand interviews with fluent native speakers of the Hän Athabaskan language. These speakers draw on a large body of indigenous geographic knowledge which has been passed down through centuries. The list has been compiled by Juneby, georeferenced and translated by Gerad Smith. The record includes the Dene spelling, glossary identification, and basic English translation. See Juneby and Ritter 1978 for the published list of Hän place names.
Please cite this page as:
Smith, Gerad
2017 Hän 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 Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks.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:
Juneby, Willy, and John T. Ritter, 1978. Place Names of the Eagle Region. Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Archive. Pdf Ms.