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Koyukon (also called Denaakk'e) is an Athabaskan language spoken along the Koyukuk and middle Yukon River in western interior Alaska. In 2007, the language had approximately 150 speakers who were generally older adults bilingual in English from a total ethnic population of 2,300. Jules Jetté, a French Canadian Jesuit missionary, began recording the language and culture of the Koyukon people in 1898. Considered a fluent Koyukon speaker after spending years in the region, Jette died in 1927, leaving behind a significant quantity of notes on the Koyukon people, their culture and beliefs, and their language. Eliza Jones, an Alaskan native and member of the Koyukon tribe, came in contact with these manuscripts while studying, and later working, at the University of Alaska in the early 1970s. Working from Jette's notes and in consultation with Koyukon tribal elders, Jones pieced together the Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary which was edited by James Kari and published in 2000 by the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Koyukon Athabaskan Dictionary is unusually comprehensive in terms of documentation of an American indigenous language, in part because Jette's notes were of excellent quality and depth, and because these notes were taken around a century ago when the language was far more actively spoken and the culture more traditional. The use of the word, Dictionary, in the title is perhaps misleading as the document is as much encyclopedic dictionary as it is a record of the culture and traditions of the Koyukon people. The document also contains traditional stories recorded by Catherine Attla and published by the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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