Draft Final Report: Native Place Names Mapping in Denali National Park and Preserve by James Kari DENA'INAQ TITA:!TUN August 1999 Revised draft, December, 1999 NPS, Denali National Park and Preserve contract through Alaska and Polar Regions Dept., UAF, Fund # 337662 Draft Final Report: Native Place Names Mapping in Denali National Park and Preserve by James Kari DENA'INAQ TITAzTUN August 1999 Revised draft, December, 1999 Author's Address: James Kari Professor Emeritus of Linguistics University of Alaska Fairbanks 1089 Bruhn Rd. Fairbanks, AK 99709
[email protected] National Park Service, Denali National Park and Preserve contract through Alaska and Polar Regions Dept., UAF, Fund # 337662 Draft Final Report: Native Place Names Mapping in Denali National Park and Preserve NPS contract through Alaska and Polar Regions Dept., UAF, Fund # 337662 By James Kari, DENA ')NAQ TIT A"lTUN Revised draft, December, 1999 Outline of Final Report: 1.0 Project Summary ........................................................... 3 1.1 Acknowledgments .......................................................... 4 2.0 General Introduction ........................................................ 6 2.1 Introductory Topics on the Athabaskan Peoples of the Central Alaska Range ......... 6 2.2 Names for DenaliIMount McKinley in Alaskan Native Languages .................. 7 2.3 Introductory Concepts in the Study of Place Names .............................. 9 2.4 Summary of Systemic Features of Athabaskan Toponymy ........................ 11 3.1 Sources and Methods: On-going Review and Place Name Reconstruction ............ 12 3.2 Mapping Materials and Section and Feature Numbering ......................... 14 4.1 Discussion of the Distribution of Athabaskan Place Name Data .................... 16 4.2 Discussion of Regional Prehistory ............................................ 20 4.3 Inaccurate Stereotypes of Athabaskan Geographic Knowledge .................... 22 4.4 Summary of Athabaskan Language Materials on Regional Ethnogeography .......