My niece, Robyn Chaney, submitted the following as a Yup’ik word of the week. Robyn’s family lives in Dillingham. Robyn and William Chaney’s boys, Dillon and Triston, recently caught a cross fox.
kaviak — fox
The Athabascan Word of the Week appears every Saturday in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. The words are provided by Susan “K’etsoo” Paskvan of Yukon-Koyukuk School District. She is originally from the village of Koyukuk on the Yukon River in Interior Alaska. She is Tleeyegge Hut’aane, which is Koyukon Athabascan. She seeks stories and phrases from both Denaakk’e (Koyukon Athabascan) and Denak’a (Lower Tanana Athabascan), which are languages spoken in the Yukon-Koyukuk School District region.
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