Eyak
Americannoun
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a member of a small tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the southeastern coast of Alaska.
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the language of the Eyak, related to the Athabascan languages.
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Being good stewards entails changing our relationship with food, said Dune Lankard, founder and president of the Native Conservancy and an Eyak Athabaskan.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2021
The plant was first found in Cordova’s Eyak Lake in 1982 and has since spread to areas between Fairbanks and the Kenai Peninsula.
From Washington Times • Jun. 25, 2015
In 2008, one of the state's indigenous languages, Eyak, become extinct with the death of its last fluent speaker, Marie Smith.
From Reuters • Oct. 24, 2014
Undeterred, Lankard gave up his fishing business, set up the Eyak Rainforest Preservation Fund and began lobbying politicians and native Alaskans throughout the state.
From Time Magazine Archive
Between Eyak River and Katalla was a mainland of battered reefs and rocks and an archipelago of islands in which a pirate fleet might have found a hundred hiding-places.
From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver
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