Athabascan Word of the Week features Native place names

Susan Paskvan's Athabascan Word of the Week in last Saturday's Daily News-Miner featured three Native place names near the village of Tanana.

• Bugh nełaagheedelenee
  Mission Hill, the original Native village (literally:s “hill where the two rivers meet”)
• Hohudodetlaał Denh
  present day Tanana (literally: “Place where the area is chopped out”)
• Noochuhgholoyet
  general area of the peninsula created by the meeting of the two rivers (Yukon and Tanana) (literally: “The point created by the meeting of the two rivers.”)

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