5-716: The Kantishna River ( Lower Tanana : Khenteethno ) is a 108-mile (174 km) tributary of the Tanana River in the U.S. state of Alaska . Formed by the confluence of the McKinley River with Birch Creek in Denali National Park and Preserve , it drains part of the north slope of the Alaska Range including the Denali massif. The direction of flow is generally north-northeast. The Toklat River
10-764: Is a major tributary. Boaters can float the Kantishna River and some of its tributaries in canoes, folding canoes and kayaks, or inflatable canoes and kayaks. Some trips begin at Lake Minchumina , run about 50 miles (80 km) down the Muddy River to Birch Creek, then downstream to the Birch–;McKinley confluence (the source of the Kantishna) and then down the Kantishna to the Tanana. The entire trip
15-487: Is rated Class I (easy) on the International Scale of River Difficulty . Dangers include the possibility of dangerous winds on Minchumina Lake, as well as overhanging trees, stumps, and logs along the streams. Another tributary, Moose Creek, can be floated for about 50 miles (80 km) beginning at Wonder Lake or Kantishna and entering the Kantishna River along its middle reaches near Bearpaw. From there to
20-578: The 250-person village of Minto.” It is one of the large family of Athabaskan languages , also known as Dené . The Athabaskan (or Dené) bands who formerly occupied a territory between the Salcha and the Goodpaster rivers spoke a distinct dialect that linguists term the Middle Tanana language . Vowel sounds in Tanana are /a æ ɪ~i ʊ~u ə/ . In a 2008–2009 project, linguist Siri Tuttle of
25-636: The Tanana, the run is the same as the Lake Minchumina float. The Moose Creek segment includes Class II (medium) rapids. Lower Tanana language Lower Tanana (also Tanana and/or Middle Tanana ) is an endangered language spoken in Interior Alaska in the lower Tanana River villages of Minto and Nenana . Of about 380 Tanana people in the two villages, about 30 still speak the language. As of 2010, “Speakers who grew up with Lower Tanana as their first language can be found only in
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