Nearly half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world are expected to vanish in the next 100 years. One of them is Athabaskan, a language of the Siletz tribe in the Pacific Northwest. Bud Lane ...

Beyond the Southwest, the tribes who use the Athabaskan language stretch as far as the North Pole. Here’s a real-life example. Many years ago, Joyce Begay-Foss, ...

The highest point on the North American continent is in Alaska and reaches a spectacular 20,320 feet above sea level. The local Athabaskan Indians reverently called the perpetually snow-covered ...

William Schneider, editor, with contributions by Kevin Illingworth, Will Mayo, Natasha Singh, and Thomas Alton. University of Alaska Pres. 2018. 216 pages. $35 “For two days in July, 1915, the ...