Example Sentences

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Being good stewards entails changing our relationship with food, said Dune Lankard, founder and president of the Native Conservancy and an Eyak Athabaskan.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2021

The plant was first found in Cordova’s Eyak Lake in 1982 and has since spread to areas between Fairbanks and the Kenai Peninsula.

From Washington Times • Jun. 25, 2015

In 2008, one of the state's indigenous languages, Eyak, become extinct with the death of its last fluent speaker, Marie Smith.

From Reuters • Oct. 24, 2014

The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away.

From Time Magazine Archive

Between Eyak River and Katalla was a mainland of battered reefs and rocks and an archipelago of islands in which a pirate fleet might have found a hundred hiding-places.

From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver