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	Ahtna Language and the Ahtna Indian Tribe (Ahtena, Atna, Copper River Athapaskan)
		Ahtna Language and the Ahtna Indian Tribe (Ahtena, Atna, Copper River Athapaskan)
		Ahtna (also spelled Ahtena or Atna) is an Athabaskan language of Alaska.
		Only a few dozen elders still speak the Ahtna language fluently today, but some younger people are working to preserve their native language for future generations.
	www.native-languages.org /ahtna.htm (223 words)

	Ahtna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their language, also called Ahtna, is facing extinction.
		The Ahtna were known to the Tlingit through Eyak intermediaries; the Tlingit called them the Ikhka Khwáan meaning roughly "copper digging people".
		Ahtna Incorporated, the Alaska Native Regional Corporation representing the Copper River Native Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahtna (153 words)

	Alaska Journal of Commerce Online
		Last year, Ahtna showed a profit of $2 million, and promises to show a profit of more than $1 million when the books are tallied for 2004, but the company is still $18 million in debt, Johns said.
		Ahtna had had the Social Security contract in Kansas City for two and a half years before federal officials, pleased with their work, awarded the Baltimore contract, he said.
		Ahtna's was a relatively small contributor to the overall 2003 economic effort of Alaska Native corporations founded under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, said Barbara Donatelli, executive vice president of Cook Inlet Region Inc.
	www.alaskajournal.com /stories/112804/loc_20041128014.shtml (587 words)

	"They Want to Accept Baptism Very Much": An Abortive Orthodox Mission to the Ahtna Indians, 1850s-1930s: ...
		Attitudes of many Ahtna and Athabaskans in general toward Orthodoxy and Catholicism, especially at the end of the nineteenth century, could be described as "self- Christianization." Historian Jurgen Osterhammel introduced this expression to emphasize an initiative of native peoples to accommodate the Christian religion to their own ideology.
		Although the Ahtna had entered a period of dramatic changes as late as the end of the 1890s, epidemic diseases and the first American advances into Copper River country during these years perhaps created an anxiety and prompted "Mednovsty" to reassess their ideology and status in the changing social and economic environment.
		Moreover, many Ahtna who belong to the middle-aged generation cannot explain the origin of Russian Orthodox crosses and "spirit houses" on the graves of their deceased relatives, although this practice was clearly borrowed from the Christian Dena'ina.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/mofc/znamenski.html (2615 words)

	Wrangell-St. Elias Human History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Historically, the Ahtna and Upper Tanana Athabascans resided in the interior of the park.
		Ahtna natives traveled the river corridors, foothills, and passes of what we currently refer to as the Wrangell Mountains for several hundred years prior to European arrival in the area.
		Assigned the task of traversing from the mouth of the Copper to the Yukon River, Ruf Serebrennikov and his entire party was killed by the Ahtna near the village of Batzulnetas in the summer of 1848.
	www.nps.gov /wrst/history.htm (1796 words)

	Alaska Journal of Commerce: Johns spurs rally at Ahtna 10/13/03
		Ahtna also is trying to do some joint ventures, though "right now we're finding difficulty in bonding," Johns said.
		Ahtna is paying about $200,000 a month in bank interest for its debt.
		Ahtna Development Corporation: Received 8(a) certification in 1994, its core business is operations and management, information technology, records management and imaging.
	www.alaskajournal.com /stories/101303/foc_20031013017.shtml (745 words)

	AUSA Sunshine Chapter - Sponsors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ahtna Inc. is one of 12 Alaska regional corporations established by Congress under terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) in 1971.
		Ahtna Inc. established its headquarters in Glennallen, Alaska, the heart of the Copper River Basin.
		Ahtna Inc. is committed to profitability, providing a broad range of opportunities to its shareholders and preserving the Native culture.
	www.ausa-sunshine.org /sponsors/adc.html (291 words)

	News-Miner - Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ahtna is not disputing the right of any resident of Alaska to fish the banks of the Copper River for personal use.
		Ahtna Inc. would challenge any landowner to open his or her private property to such an activity without expecting some sort of compensation either from the users or the state of Alaska as well as protection.
		Ahtna will not be intimidated, threatened or attacked by private individuals, organizations or the state of Alaska.
	www.news-miner.com /Stories/0,1413,113~7252~2850999,00.html (784 words)

	Ahtna, Incorporated
		Ahtna, Incorporated is one of 12 Alaska Native Regional Corporations established by Congress under terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971.
		Ahtna, Inc., owns in fee title, approximately 1,528,000 acres conveyed in December 1998 from an entitlement of 1,770,000 acres.
		Seven of the eight villages within the Ahtna Region are merged with Ahtna, Inc., and all eight are Federally Recognized Tribes.
	www.ahtna-inc.com (137 words)

	GeoNative - Gwich'in / Ahtna / Koyukon / Tanana / Dena'ina
		The Ahtna are one of the native Athapaskan peoples of Alaska.
		Ahtna herri atapaskarra bizi da Copper ibaian eta inguruetan, hego erdialdeko Alaskan.
		Their Athapaskan language, close to Ahtna, is virtually extinct.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/gwichin.html (614 words)

	Ahtna Technical Services,Inc.
		Ahtna Technical Services, Incorporated (ATSI) is one of several subsidiary companies formed to provide long-term, stable revenues back to Ahtna, Incorporated and its shareholders.
		ATSI accomplishes this by utilizing exclusive programs available to Alaskan Native Corporations (ANCs); employing an experienced corporate and project management team; successfully implementing efficient and cost effective policies and procedures; and by our commitment to the highest level of legal, ethical, and moral standards in our conduct of business.
		Be a respected preferred facilities services provider generating profitable margins, creating career opportunities – while enhancing Ahtna Inc.’s purpose for all shareholders and descendents – today and tomorrow.
	www.ahtna-technicalservices.com (172 words)

	MELUS: The future of Native American literature: a conversation with John E. Smelcer - Interview
		Smelcer is a writer of Ahtna Athabaskan, Cherokee, and Ger-German ancestry.
		He is a federally enrolled member of the Ahtna tribe and retains a BIA allotment in Tazlina Village.
		Indeed, as executive director of the Ahtna Heritage Foundation, one might argue that he functioned in much the same way as a tradition bearer in the Ahtna community.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_3_27/ai_94640674 (1379 words)

	Artful Dodge - Poets as Translators - John E. Smelcer
		Ahtna (distantly related to Navajo) is one of thirteen dialects within the Athabaskan language group.
		It's a slow and sometimes tedious technique, especially with trying to follow this linguistic string simultaneously in both of the languages, but it is truly a process of discovery.
		I also see my poetry in Ahtna as another starting point-a place from which others may one day follow, keeping the word alive in a vanishing language that-despite our great efforts-still remains at the brink of extinction.
	www.wooster.edu /artfuldodge/poetsastranslators/smelcer.htm (1089 words)

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		STUDY RESULTS: The aboriginal territory of the Ahtna extended throughout the Copper River Valley and its drainages, which is surrounded by the Alaska, Talkeetna, Chugach, and Wrangell mountain ranges.
		The Ahtna harvested locally abundant mammals and fish, predictably following an annual routine that was based on a sophisticated knowledge of local animal behavior.
		In 1973, Ahtna household composition was highly predictable, with 55% of individuals living in independent nuclear family households, and the remaining 45% living in either single person households, conjugal pair households, or joint family households.
	www.mms.gov /eppd/socecon/techsum/ak/TR-007.doc (1725 words)

	ANLC Publications -- Ahtna Athabascan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Upper Ahtna narratives of history, geography, and land use.
		Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary compiled and edited by J. Kari.
		Extensive coverage of Ahtna cultural and ecological vocabulary.
	www.uaf.edu /anlc/pubs/aa.html (60 words)

	Valdez-Cordova Census Area - Please adopt me!
		In the 1800s, the Ahtna Athabaskan Natives occupied most of this region, the upper Copper Valley.
		Ahtna is the Athabaskan name for the Copper River.
		The Ahtna People lived a semi nomadic life style - most of their settlements were either fish camps or winter villages along the river, or hunting and trapping camps in the uplands.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ak/state/boro-valdezcrdva.html (719 words)

	Government Innovators Network: Ya Ne Dah Ah School, 2005-06-01 12:57:26
		An Ahtna Athabascan Indian community in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska, Chickaloon Village and its 250 tribal members are only sixty miles northeast of Anchorage, and thus, they have been under particularly intense pressures of acculturation.
		Concerned about the quality of education that their students were receiving in the public school system, coupled with a desire to curb the decline of Ahtna Athabascan cultural practices, the Chickaloon Village decided to take matters into their own hands in 1992.
		Although there are fewer than fifty fluent Ahtna Athabascan speakers in the world and most of them are over fifty years old, the students in the Ya Ne Dah Ah School are now learning the language.
	www.innovations.harvard.edu /awards.html?id=6399 (1980 words)

	10 AHTNA Development Corp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although it’s set to graduate from the 8(a) program in just three years, AHTNA Development Corp. recently changed course drastically, moving away from a strict focus on operations and maintenance to a foray into the information technology market.
		Started in 1975, this subsidiary of AHTNA Inc., one of 12 instate Alaska regional corporations created by Congress in 1971 under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), had previously earned its money in the construction and building management fields.
		The tribal members were brought in when the corporation was set up under the ANCSA, and part of the mandate requires AHTNA Development Corp. to pursue profitability and train shareholders and bring them into the work force.
	www.washingtontechnology.com /news/15_12/special_report/1778-10.html (758 words)

	Anschutz Exploration said to have filed for Copper River exploration license - 03/20/2000
		Wes Nason of Ahtna Corp., speaking at the Coalbed Methane Conference March 3 in Anchorage, said the corporation would like to see more drilling in its region, where 11 holes have been drilled in the Copper River basin since the 1960s.
		Ahtna Minerals, he said, may provide some funding for shallow gas exploration.
		And, Nason said, Ahtna supports Anschutz in its application for a state exploration license in the area.
	www.petroleumnews.com /newsbulletin/64358191.html (398 words)

	LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
		Most of their land selections were based on historical use areas within their region, and many were targeted toward known mineral resource occurrences which would provide future economic development opportunities to this very poor region.
		Since ANILCA, the NPS has systematically blocked access and stymied Ahtna’s attempts to a access, assess, and develop their land which is within park boundaries.
		The NPS has reached out in recent years to work with Ahtna is some minor ways such as contracting the building of the new park headquarters to an Ahtna subsidiary, but they did so in a non-generous manner so that Ahtna profited little, if at all, from the enterprise.
	www.mccarthy-kennicott.com /MA2004/page12.html (1356 words)

	CIRI Newsletter - September 2003
		Dena’ina and Ahtna Athabascans of Southcentral Alaska took advantage of natural conditions unique to their region to develop an astonishing degree of sophistication and complexity in their culture, according to a Kenai researcher who has spent his career studying the indigenous people of the Kenai Peninsula.
		Boraas said he realized that both Dena’ina and Ahtna Athabascan people took advantage of late-run salmon and the non-permafrost frozen areas to develop food preservation techniques.
		The system began changing gradually with the coming of the Russians into the region in the 1700s, but remained in use until the late 1800s when the Dena’ina’s desire to participate in the cash economy led them to abandon their earlier technology.
	www.ciri.com /newsletter/September2003/03history.html (699 words)

	ithw8
		One Athapaskan linguistic subgroup in particular, the Ahtna, occupy an area that has been identified as a major source of Native copper that was traded to other indigenous groups.
		Indeed the Ahtna are credited with discovering the knowledge of how to efficiently work raw copper into artifacts for use and trade.
		Due to its importance in the regional trade network, the control of specific copper sources was maintained by important and influential Ahtna men.
	www.cast.uark.edu /local/uaclasses/it/spring98/it2/ithw8.html (822 words)

	Minersmanual
		Ahtna Incorporated is one of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations established in Congress under terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANSCA) in 1971.
		Ahtna Inc. has approximately 1,200 shareholders, of which the majority resides in the
		Ahtna is unique in having improved highways throughout the region, plus railroad and intertie power in the Cantwell area of the Healy Quadrangle.
	www.minersmanual.com /listdir.php?ST_ID=2 (237 words)

	Welcome to AHTNA Construction
		Our company is a subsidiary of Ahtna, Inc., and is one of the 13 regional corporations established by congress in 1971 under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA).
		Ahtna, Inc. has over 1,200 shareholders and a land entotlement of 1.7 million acres in
		As a growth-oriented company, Ahtna Construction is a committed to developing the well being of Ahtna shareholders through training and employment opportunities, and through monetary dividends.
	www.ahtnaconstruction.com (125 words)

	Visiting an Ahtna Indian Home
		/ Sail from Seattle to Alaska / Crossing Valdez Glacier / On the Klutina River / A Race for Claims / Visiting an Ahtna Indian Home / Descending the Copper River
		Photograph by Neal Benedict a member of Margeson's party.
		And this we were told was their daily practice.
	www.alaska.net /~awss/MargesonAhtna.html (903 words)

	Wire-Communications Inc, Corporate Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Early 1999, Wire-Comm was bought by Ahtna, Incorporated (Ahtna) and is now an Ahtna subsidiary.
		Ahtna is one of the 12 Alaska Native Regional corporations established by Congress under terms of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) in 1971.
		Ahtna has approximately 1,200 shareholders and an Alaska land entitlement of 1.7 million acres, a tract which is equal to the size of South Carolina.
	home.gci.net /~wirecomm/corp.htm (295 words)

	MELUS: In the Shadows of Mountains: Ahtna Stories from the Copper River. . - Reviews - book review
		The Ahtna are an Athabaskan group, but they reflect some of the narrative and cultural influence of their Bskimo, Eyak, and Tlingit neighbors.
		In this volume, Smelcer presents the work of a number of Ahtna elders and recounts tales told to him by Ahtna relatives.
		The book has some value as a broad introduction to Ahtna narrative aimed at a general reader, but for a reader interested in the study of the Ahtna, of oral narratives, or of Alaska Natives there is little usefulness.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2_26/ai_80852635 (538 words)

	Press: In the Shadows of Mountains: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Ahtna Heritage Foundation is fortunate to count among its employees John Smelcer, who grew up among the people and whose grandmothers, Mary Smelcer-Wood and Morrie Secondchief, told him some of these stories.
		As he told me, "If you read the whole thing, you’ll learn about 100 Ahtna words, what they mean and how to pronounce them." The Ahtna were among the last Native group in North America to come in contact with Euro-Americans; many tribes probably no longer know 100 of their regional words.
		(The Ahtna know, but readers will not necessarily know.) "In the Shadows of Mountains" could have benefited from a glossary (including terms like "fish camp" as well as Ahtna terms listed alphabetically), a Recommended Reading section for further research, an Index, and brief explanations of who authorities like Frederica de Laguna are.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/document692f.html (694 words)

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