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24-684: Slana / ˈ s l æ n ə / ( Ahtena : Stl’ana’ ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Copper River Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska . As of the 2020 census , the population of the CDP was 116, down from 147 in 2010. Slana is an Alaska Native village name, derived from the name of the river Slana . The Nabesna Mine opened in 1923, which employed 60 people at its height. Over thirty different minerals were extracted from this site, although gold

48-462: A disjunct boundary. '+' indicates a morpheme boundary. ta into water # # d QUAL + + l CL + + dlok' laugh   (lexical listing: verb theme) ta # d + l + dlok' {into water} # QUAL + CL + laugh "Water is gurgling." (surface form) In the Ahtna language the verb typically goes after the noun. In the Ahtna language, modifiers usually go after

72-478: A female householder with no husband present, and 50.0% were non-families. 43.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.00 and the average family size was 2.74. In the CDP, the age distribution of the population shows 20.2% under the age of 18, 1.6% from 18 to 24, 21.8% from 25 to 44, 41.9% from 45 to 64, and 14.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

96-485: A general store, art gallery, canoe rental, bed and breakfast, snowmachine sales and solar panel sales. A Park Ranger Station and state highway maintenance camp are located nearby. Subsistence activities supplement income. Slana has road access to the statewide system by the Glenn and Richardson Highways. Individual adjacent lots have no roads and owners must hike through other's private property. The nearest public airstrip

120-537: A watering point at the new Community Center/Clinic. The landfill was closed in 1990. Electricity was added in the summer of 2006 by Alaska Power and Telephone. There is one school in the community, Slana School, a part of the Copper River School District . It is attended by 14 students. Local hospitals or health clinics include Tok Community Clinic (907-883-5855) in Tok or Gulkana Clinic (907-822-3646). A clinic

144-614: A word. The consonants in Kari's IPA phonology and practical orthography are shown in the following table . The vowels in Kari's practical orthography and phonology are as follows. There is some variation in pronunciation of words according to dialect. Possession is indicated by prefixes such as s- "my", u- or yu'- "his/her", ne- "our"; as in snaan "my mother", unaan (or yu'naan ) "his/her mother", nenaan "our mother". Verbs are primarily prefixing. There are often six or more prefixes before

168-724: Is a school district headquartered in Glennallen, Alaska . CRSD is known for being made up of several schools. The schools at times collaborate to achieve new educational opportunities. This is done primarily by VTC, or by transportation of students to either of the three schools. There is also a home learning program called "Upstream Learning". It previously operated Chistochina School, Gakona Elementary, and Lottie Sparks Elementary in Nelchina . 62°06′45″N 145°31′41″W  /  62.1126°N 145.5280°W  / 62.1126; -145.5280 This Alaska school-related article

192-648: Is one of the eleven Athabaskan languages native to Alaska. The Ahtna language comes from the proto-Athabaskan language , believed to have evolved 5,000 to 10,000 years ago when humans migrated from Eurasia to North America over the Bering land bridge ( Beringia ), when it was dried up and exposed creating a natural land bridge. Many indigenous Native American languages are to have derived from this proto-Athabaskan language. Ahtna and other Athabaskan languages, like Navajo, have many similarities, due to their common ancestry. The Ahtna language has changed very much and very often, and it

216-634: Is south, at Chistochina . A 900' gravel private airstrip has been constructed at Duffy's Tavern. The Nabesna Road provides access to the interior of the Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve , a World Heritage Site . Nearby to Slana is the Porcupine Creek State Recreation Site , a 240 acres (97 ha) park with camping and fishing in a dense forest area. Ahtena language The Ahtna language consists of four different dialects: Upper, Central, Lower, and Western. Three of

240-536: Is still changing today. Within the past century more than one hundred words have made their way into the Ahtna vocabulary mostly due to influence from English. Contact with Russians influenced the Ahtna language with many Russian loanwords being introduced. With contact from English speakers, especially recently, English words have also been introduced. Some words are also borrowed from the Alaskan Tlingit and Alutiiq native languages. The Ahtna region consists of

264-630: Is under construction. Slana is classified as an isolated village, it is found in EMS Region 2E in the Copper River Region. Emergency Services have highway, air and river access. Emergency service is provided by 911 Telephone Service and volunteers Auxiliary health care is provided by Copper River EMS (907-822-3671); Chistochina/Slana First Responders (907-822-3671); Tok Clinic or Gulkana Clinic. A roadside lodge provides groceries, gas, liquor, an auto mechanic and RV parking. Other local businesses include

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288-490: The United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 253.8 square miles (657 km), of which, 252.9 square miles (655 km) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km) of it (0.37%) is water. Slana first appeared on the 1980 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP). As of the census of 2000, there were 124 people, 62 households, and 31 families residing in the CDP. The population density

312-501: The poverty line , including 62.5% of under eighteens and 14.3% of those over 64. Individual wells are the primary source of water in Slana; others draw water from Rufus Creek. The schools operate individual wells. Outhouses , honeybuckets and septic systems are used for sewage disposal. Approximately one third of the homes have complete plumbing. A feasibility study has been funded to examine system alternatives. Funds have been requested for

336-680: The 1970s and recorded a pronunciation guide of the Mentasta dialect. In 2012 a facing-bilingual collection of poetry in Ahtna and English, The Indian Prophet , was published by poet John Smelcer . In a revitalization program, the Ya Ne Dah Ah School in Sutton, Alaska teaches the Ahtna language as a part of its curriculum. As of 2010, a digital archiving project of Ahtna was underway. There are four main dialect divisions and eight bands (tribal unions): The comparison of some animal names in

360-918: The Copper River Basin and the Wrangell Mountains. The Ahtna Region is bordered by the Nutzotin river in the Northeast and the Alaska Range in the North. The Talkeetna Mountains are to the Chugach Mountains are to the South. The Upper Ahtna live on the upper portion of the Copper River, The Middle or Central Ahtna live slightly down river from there, The Lower Ahtna live near the mouth of the Copper River, which opens into

384-785: The Gulf of Alaska, and the Western Ahtna live to the West of the River. The Ahtna people live on and near traditional villages. There are eight villages within the Ahtna Region: Cantwell, Chistochina, Chitina, Copper Center, Gakona, Gulkana, Mentasta and Tazlina. They are all recognized federally. There are 15 elderly speakers out of a population of 500, and the language is facing extinction. The subsistence and fishing-rights activist Katie John (1915–2013) of Mentasta helped develop an Ahtna alphabet in

408-674: The Nabesna Road, which runs south of the Tok Cut-Off at mile 63 (km 101). It lies at the junction of the Slana and Copper rivers, 85 kilometers (53 mi) southwest of Tok . Slana experiences a continental subarctic climate ( Köppen Dfc ), with long, cold winters, and relatively warm summers. Temperature extremes range from −57 to 93 °F (−49.4 to 33.9 °C). Snowfall averages 55.4 inches (1.41 m), with total precipitation of 15.35 inches or 389.9 millimeters per year. According to

432-578: The four are still spoken today. Ahtna is closely related to Dena'ina . The similar name Atnah occurs in the journals of Simon Fraser and other early European diarists in what is now British Columbia as a reference to the Tsilhqot'in people, another Northern Athapaskan group. Ahtna is classified as belonging to the Northern Athabaskan languages , a subgrouping of the Athabaskan languages . Ahtna

456-585: The noun they modify. Examples of this include the name of the deity or trickster figure Saghani Ggaay , where saghani is the noun " raven " and ggaay the adjective "little, small" or in the term nen ten "permafrost", a combination of nen "land, ground" and ten "frozen". This word order is also seen in place names such as Dghelaay Ce'e " Denali /Mount McKinley", literally "Biggest Mountain", and Ben Ce'e "Lake Susitna", literally "Big Lake". Copper River School District Copper River School District ( CRSD )

480-463: The stem and then one or more suffixes. (1a) displays a surface form in Ahtna spelling while (1b) is the verb theme. Three prefixes are present that have to be listed with the stem to make up the form. Anything adjacent in a verb theme can be separated by morphemes in the forms surface. Verb themes display what elements should be listed in a dictionary for a speaker to be able to reconstruct the verb. '#' displays an important word-internal boundary known as

504-429: The three Athabaskan languages: Athabaskan languages are primarily prefixing. Many prefixes are presented together. There is limited suffixation and often one word has as much meaning as an English language sentence. Verbs are very complex therefore creating many different meanings or analysis of verbs. Some verbs include syntactic principles in addition to and/or replacement of morphological principles when constructing

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528-410: Was 0.5 inhabitants per square mile (0.19/km). There were 193 housing units at an average density of 0.8 per square mile (0.31/km). The racial makeup of the CDP was 80.7% White , 13.7% Native American , 0.8% Asian , 2.4% from other races , and 2.4% from two or more races. Of the 62 households, 14.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.5% were married couples living together, 3.2% had

552-415: Was 46 years. For every 100 females, there were 129.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 147.5 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $ 19,583, and the median income for a family was $ 57,917. Males had a median income of $ 46,250 versus $ 31,250 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $ 20,018. There were 20.0% of families and 23.5% of the population living below

576-603: Was the primary source of profit. It operated sporadically through the late 1940s. Slana developed rapidly in the 1980s when homesteads were offered for settlement by the federal government. Slana grew around the Slana Roadhouse , which is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places . Slana is located in Sec. 29, T011N, R008E, Copper River Meridian in the Chitina Recording District . Slana stretches along

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