Holikachuk (also Innoko , Organized Village of Grayling , Innoka-khotana , Tlëgon-khotana ) are a Yupikized Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group to western Alaska . Their native territory includes the area surrounding the middle and upper Innoko River . Later in 1963 they moved to Grayling on the Yukon River .
4-464: The Holikachuk call themselves Doogh Hit’an ( IPA: [toʁhətʼan] ). The name Holikachuk is derived from the name (in the Holikachuk language ) of a village in native Holikachuk territory. The Holikachuk have been neglected by anthropologists, resulting in little documentation (both published and unpublished). In the past they have erroneously (or out of convenience) been grouped with
8-577: Is intermediate between the Deg Xinag and Koyukon languages, linguistically closer to Koyukon but socially much closer to Deg Xinag, which has influenced it. Though it was recognized by scholars as a distinct language as early as the 1840s, it was only definitively identified in the 1970s. Of about 180 Holikachuk people, only about 5 spoke the language in 2007. In March 2012, the last living fluent speaker of Holikachuk died in Alaska. James Kari compiled
12-597: The Indigenous languages of the Americas is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Holikachuk language Holikachuk (own name: Doogh Qinag ) is a recently extinct Athabaskan language formerly spoken at the village of Holikachuk ( Hiyeghelinhdi ) on the Innoko River in central Alaska . In 1962, residents of Holikachuk relocated to Grayling on the lower Yukon River . Holikachuk
16-758: The Koyukon . The peoples neighboring the Holikachuk are in the north the Yup'ik and Koyukon , in the east the Koyukon, in the south the Upper Kuskokwim people , and in the west the Deg Hit'an . Holikachuk culture is a relative to the Deg Hit'an culture. This article relating to the Indigenous peoples of North America is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
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