Athabascan Word of the Week — September 12
Published Saturday, September 12, 2009
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Stumble It!The Kaltag School just hosted its culture week, which was based on the themes of plants and fish. Students picked donaaldloy (high bush cranberries) and kooyh (high bush cranberries) and gathered kelaakk’oyh (labrador tea), eł (spruce tips), wormwood and wild mint for a unit on medicinal plants. The junior and senior high school students seined in the morning and caught nołdlaaghe (fall chum, aka chinook salmon), saanlaaghe (silver salmon), ledlaaghe (sheefish), holehge (whitefish) and noolaaghe (dog salmon).
The Athabascan Word of the Week appears every Saturday on page A3 of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. The words are provided by Susan “K’etsoo” Paskvan of Yukon-Koyukuk School District. She is originally from the village of Koyukuk on the Yukon River in Interior Alaska. She is Tleeyegge Hut’aane, which is Koyukon Athabascan. She seeks stories and phrases from both Denaakk’e (Koyukon Athabascan) and Denak’a (Lower Tanana Athabascan), which are languages spoken in the Yukon-Koyukuk School District region.
Yukon-Koyukuk School District serves the villages of Allakaket, Hughes, Huslia, Koyukuk, Nulato, Kaltag, Ruby, Manley Hot Springs and Minto. The Board of Education places a priority on teaching the Native languages within the district.
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