4-724: The McKinley River ( Lower Tanana : Henteel no' Tl'o ) is a 58-mile (93 km) tributary of the Kantishna River in central Alaska in the United States. It drains an area on the north slope of the Alaska Range on the south edge of the Tanana Valley southwest of Fairbanks . The river issues from Muldrow Glacier in the northern Alaska Range in Denali National Park and Preserve , northeast of Denali . It flows through
8-663: A territory between the Salcha and the Goodpaster rivers spoke a distinct dialect that linguists term the Middle Tanana language . Vowel sounds in Tanana are /a æ ɪ~i ʊ~u ə/ . In a 2008–2009 project, linguist Siri Tuttle of the University of Alaska 's Native Language Center “worked with elders to translate and document song lyrics, some on file at the language center and some recorded during
12-526: Is an endangered language spoken in Interior Alaska in the lower Tanana River villages of Minto and Nenana . Of about 380 Tanana people in the two villages, about 30 still speak the language. As of 2010, “Speakers who grew up with Lower Tanana as their first language can be found only in the 250-person village of Minto.” It is one of the large family of Athabaskan languages , also known as Dené . The Athabaskan (or Dené) bands who formerly occupied
16-638: The tundra north of the Alaska Range in a generally northwest direction, joining Birch Creek to form the Kantishna River near Chilchukabena Lake. The river was named McKinley Fork by A.H. Brooks in 1905. Other names or variants include Henteeth No' Tl'o and Hintusno' Dikats . This article related to a river in Alaska is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lower Tanana language Lower Tanana (also Tanana and/or Middle Tanana )
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