Ahtna people
Also known as Ahtena, Ahtna, Atna, Ahtna-kohtaene, Copper River
The Ahtna (also Ahtena, Atna, Ahtna-kohtaene, or Copper River) are an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. The people's homeland called Atna Nenn', is located in the Copper River area of southern Alaska, and the name Ahtna derives from the local name for the Copper River. The total population of Ahtna is estimated at around 1,427.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Ahtna
- Ethnic group.image
- Two-Lower-Ahtna-girls.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Chief Stickwan's two daughters holding buckets and carrying burdens on backs with tumplines, Klutina-Copper Center band of Lower Ahtna, 1903
- Ethnic group.population
- 1,427
- Ethnic group.popplace
- United States (Alaska)
- Ethnic group.langs
- Ahtna, English
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Athabaskan peoplesEspecially Denaʼina
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17 sectionsContents
- Synonymy
- Language
- History
- Origins and early history
- European contact
- Nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Historical regional bands and dialects and present day Native Villages
- Culture
- Governance
- Architecture
- Family life
- Subsistence
- Economy
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
The Ahtna (also Ahtena, Atna, Ahtna-kohtaene, or Copper River) are an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. The people's homeland called Atna Nenn', is located in the Copper River area of southern Alaska, and the name Ahtna derives from the local name for the Copper River. The total population of Ahtna is estimated at around 1,427.
Their neighbors are other Na-Dené-speaking and Yupik peoples: Dena'ina (west), Koyukon (a little part of northwest), Lower Tanana (north), Tanacross (north), Upper Tanana (northeast), Southern Tutchone (southeast, in Canada), Tlingit (southeast), Eyak (south), and Chugach Sugpiaq (south).