| The Yukon River and its tributaries are central to Athabaskan story cycles. |
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| They have no linguistic relationship to any other language except for a vague similarity to the Athabaskan language. |
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| The collection features Athabaskan stories from Alaska and the Yukon, a region that has often been neglected in previous collections. |
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| In Athabaskan languages, they are focused on the land and the flow of the rivers. |
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| They also share some cultural similarity with the Athabaskan, with whom the Tlingit have interacted and traded for centuries. |
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| The Athabaskan language family is one of three families within the Na-Dene language phylum. |
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| I enjoyed the warmth of the hospitality in isolated Athabaskan Indian and Inuit communities. |
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| That is to say, missionaries trained in the lower 48 states came up to Alaska to establish and serve churches among the Eskimo and Athabaskan peoples. |
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| Later, as an experienced linguist, he published some studies of Penutian languages and the classification of Athabaskan languages. |
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| Thank you to Raphalel Ponce of Toulouse, France for his description of an Athabaskan Tathouke birchbark basket in his collection. |
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| What's not quite so comfortably in Parnell's camp are the Inupiaq and Athabaskan tribes in the path of his destruction. |
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| The Dena'ina are an Alaska Native people and Athabaskan Native Americans in the United States. |
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| One of the 23 northern Athabaskan languages, Tsilhqut'in is spoken by the people of Chilco River in interior British Columbia. |
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| Upper Tanana, a language spoken by indigenous Athabaskan people in eastern Alaska, had only 24 active speakers as of 2009, and was no longer being acquired by children. |
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| Lexical or situation aspect is marked in Athabaskan languages. |
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