Dena'ina language

Hard work: Tanning a moosehide

Hard work: Tanning a moosehide

Helen Dick looks on at Joel Isaak’s moose skin as the two begin tanning a moosehide in the Raven Plaza outside of the Dena’ina Wellness… Continue reading

 

Tribe bringing awareness to suicide in community

In 2015, the State of Alaska’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 44.2 percent of Alaska Native youth felt so sad or hopeless every day… Continue reading

 

Linguist James Kari, who worked with Dena’ina speaker Peter Kalifornsky on preserving the vanishing Dena’ina language in the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, speaks at a Kenai Peninsula History Conference panel on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Kenai Peninsula College near Soldotna, Alaska. Kari presented his work at both last week’s history conference and the one that preceded it in 1974. (Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion)

Kenai Peninsula Historical Conference sheds light on Russian, Native history

Like the history it examined, the weekend’s history conference at Kenai Peninsula College was many things to many people. For Michael Skinner, who gives summer… Continue reading

 

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Kenai Peninsula College Professor of Anthropology, Alan Boraas, talks to a class during a walk near the college Thursday September 25, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska. Boraas took students and faculty members to several historical Dena'ina sites along Slikok Creek and the Kenai River.

KPC class takes a walk through Dena’ina history

Alan Boraas took 22 people for an hour-long walk through a thousand years of history Thursday in the woods near Kenai Peninsula College. It’s a… Continue reading

Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion Kenai Peninsula College Professor of Anthropology, Alan Boraas, talks to a class during a walk near the college Thursday September 25, 2014 in Soldotna, Alaska. Boraas took students and faculty members to several historical Dena'ina sites along Slikok Creek and the Kenai River.
Photo by Elizabeth Earl/The Peninsula Clarion The approximately 40 people who attended the Dena'ina language forum on Thursday heard about the basics of the language and the efforts to revive it.

KPC hosts Dena’ina language forum

Four sentences written nearly two centuries ago by a homesick man on a lonely California beach are being used in the efforts to revive the… Continue reading

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/The Peninsula Clarion The approximately 40 people who attended the Dena'ina language forum on Thursday heard about the basics of the language and the efforts to revive it.

Kenaitze elders demonstrate traditional moose head use

During Sharon Isaak’s childhood in Soldotna, butchering and processing moose meat was a regular family activity. Though the old bone saws are still in the… Continue reading