The Iditarod River is a 325-mile (523 km) tributary of the Innoko River in the U.S. state of Alaska . The river begins north of Chuathbaluk and the Russian Mountains and flows northeast and then west to meet the larger river near Holikachuk .
4-527: Iditarod is an Anglicization of the Deg Hit’an (Athabascan) name for the river, Haiditirod or Haidilatna , which is probably an English version of the name of a village on the river, that may have corresponded with the village called Iditarod in the 1900s. This article about a location in the Bethel Census Area, Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
8-791: A collection of traditional folk tales in Deg Xinag by the elder Belle Deacon , was published in 1987 by the Alaska Native Language Center . A literacy manual with accompanying audiotapes was published in 1993. There are two main dialects: Yukon and Kuskokwim . The Yukon dialect (Yukon Deg Xinag, Yukon Ingalik) is the traditional language of the villages of the Lower Yukon River (Anvik, Shageluk and Holy Cross). As of 2009, there are no longer any speakers living in Anvik and Holy Cross. The other dialect (Kuskokwim Deg Xinag, Kuskokwim Ingalik)
12-675: A location in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Deg Xinag language Deg Xinag (Deg Hitʼan) is a Northern Athabaskan language spoken by the Deg Hitʼan peoples of the GASH region. The GASH region consists of the villages of Grayling , Anvik , Shageluk , and Holy Cross along
16-599: The lower Yukon River in Interior Alaska. The language is severely endangered; out of an ethnic population of approximately 250 people, only 2 people still speak the language. The language was referred to as Ingalik by Osgood (1936). While this term sometimes still appears in the literature, it is today considered pejorative. The word "Ingalik" is from the Yupʼik Eskimo language: Ingqiliq , meaning "Indian". Engithidong Xugixudhoy (Their Stories of Long Ago) ,
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