New book of Upper Tanana stories

The archive just received a new book of Upper Tanana stories by Cora David, edited by Olga Lovick. It has been cataloged as item UT003L2011.

The book is published by the Alaska Native Language Center. Information on purchasing this book can be found here.

Online Dictionary Resources

Looking for a dictionary of an Alaska Native languages? Many dictionaries can be access online via ANLA or other websites. See the dictionaries page in the collections section of the ANLA site.

Eyak Qualifiers

A major new chapter on Eyak grammar is now available. The 92 page draft manuscript by Michael Krauss entitled Eyak Qualifiers can be downloaded as part of item CA961K2009.

Open House November 18

In celebration of Native American Heritage month the Alaska Native Language Archive and Alaska Native Language Center will host an open house, November 18, 1:00-5:00 pm, on the fourth floor of the Brooks Building, UAF campus. All are welcome to come by and share refreshments. Learn about ANLC's publication program and tour the language archive. For more information call 474-7874 or email fyanlp@uaf.edu.

Sealaska Heritage Institute to collaborate on preserving recordings

The Sealaska Heritage Institute has received an IMLS grant to digitize and annotate Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian recordings. By working with Native speakers the project will not only preserve recordings but also work to identify the contents of the recordings. In many cases historic recordings are not well labeled, so it can be difficult to determine the contents of the recording from the written labels (if they exist). As part of this grant ANLA will assist with digitization, while SHI will assist with identifying contents of Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian recordings at ANLA. In addition, ANLA will provide digital copies of its Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian collections to SHI.

There's a nice article about the project in the Alaska Dispatch.

Also see the SHI Special Collections Blog.

Yup'ik video tapes arrive from Kuskokwim Campus

Today we received 11 boxes of video tapes from the UAF Kuskokwim Campus. The tapes have been donated by Sophie and Oscar Alexie and document many years of Yup'ik instructional activity in the Lower Kuskokwim region. We will be inventorying these tapes over the next few weeks and prioritizing digitization efforts.

Thanks to Oscar and Sophie for preserving these materials.

Yukon Flats Place Names

We are pleased to announce a new addition to the Archive entitled Compilation of Yukon Flats Athabascan Place Names for Stevens Village, Beaver, Birch Creek and Fort Yukon. Compiled by Adeleine Peter Raboff and James Kari, this manuscript describes more than 800 Gwich'in and Koyukon place names from the Yukon Flats region, based on interviews in Birch Creek, Fort Yukon, Beaver and Stevens Village.

A limited number of print copies with gray-scale maps are available from the author. Digital versions with color maps can be downloaded from the Archive.

Map 2, from the digital document