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A Dena'ina Legacy: K'tl'egh'i Sukdu

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A Dena'ina Legacy is a fascinating collection of 147 bilingual Dena'ina-English writings by the self-taught writer and scholar, Peter Kalifornsky of Kenai, Alaska.
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A Dena'ina Legacy is a fascinating collection of 147 bilingual Dena'ina-English writings by the self-taught writer and scholar, Peter Kalifornsky of Kenai, Alaska.
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Price: £22.95
Pages: 527
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Imprint: Alaska Native Language Center
Publication Date: 01 August 1991
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781555000431
Format: Paperback
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Peter Kalifornsky is a self-taught writer and scholar, a resident of Kenai, Alaska.  Born in 1911, he has been writing traditional sturies, poems, and language lessons in the Dena'ina Athabaskan language of Lower Cook Inlet.

Illustrations and Maps

Foreword by Dell Hymes

Preface to the 2001 Edition

Acknowledgements

Writing at the Archaic Periphery

The Dena’ina Alphabet

Unhtsah—Prelude

Chapter 1. Naniltu K’ech’elyuyi Sukdu—Stories of Our Beliefs

Chapter 2. Ninya Sukdu—Animal Stories

Chapter 3. K’eghuch’edniyi Sukdu—Lesson Stories

Chapter 4. Luq-u Suk Dena’ina Egh—About the Old Dena’ina Life

Chapter 5. Dena’ina Qghelahch’—The Way the People Were

Chapter 6. ahtnuht’ana Elnena H’izhi—Place Names of the Kenai People’s Country

Chapter 7. Shi Sukt’a Ch’u Q’udi Nhdalnench’—My Life Story and Recent Events

Chapter 8. Kahtnuht’ana Qenaga Dazdluch’—Kenai People’s Language Patterns

Translations

Neologisms

Language Lessons, Songs, and Poems

Peter Kalifornsky: A Biography

References

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