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In 2015, then-President Barack Obama redesignated the mountain Denali, a name long championed by Alaskans, which roughly translates to “the great one” in Koyukon Athabascan, a Native Alaskan language.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025

The stamps feature skateboard artists from around the country, including Greenwood and Crystal Worl, who is Tlingit Athabascan.

From Washington Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Heather Kendall, who is Athabascan and a retired lawyer with the Native American Rights Fund, called Ms. Peltola’s victory “a combination of an earthquake and a tsunami for Alaskan politics all at once.”

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2022

The refuge is home to a dozen villages of predominantly Yup’ik, Cupik, and Deg Xit’an Athabascan people.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2022

The three more characteristic groups are the Yurok and Karok, small independent linguistic families, and the Hupa division of the Athabascan family.

From The Religion of the Indians of California by Kroeber, A. L.