The Upper Kuskokwim people or Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskans, Upper Kuskokwim Athabascans (own native name Dichinanek' Hwt'ana), and historically Kolchan, Goltsan, Tundra Kolosh, and McGrath Ingalik are an Alaskan Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group.

The Kuskokwim River or Kusko River (Yupʼik: Kusquqvak; Deg Xinag: Digenegh; Upper Kuskokwim: Dichinanekʼ; Russian: Кускоквим (Kuskokvim) [6] [7]) is a river, 702 miles (1,130 km) long, in Southwest Alaska in the United States. [4]

What then is the historical origin of the Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskans whose descendants now live in Nikolai and Telida? In 1960 the anthropologist Edward Hosley came to study the people of the area.

2021年10月27日 · The Athabascan people who live there are called Upper Kuskokwim Athabascans. They have traditionally used lands, now enclosed in the boundaries of the Park, as traditional hunting, trapping and gathering grounds for thousands of years.

Welcome to the Alaska’s Upper Kuskokwim River Region’s website which houses Dinak’i Language (Upper Kuskokwim Athabascan) preservation and educational resources, environmental research, and cultural information from our …

Most of the collection dates from 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on bilingual educational materials in the Upper Kuskokwim language, much of which was published through the Alaska State Operated Schools in Anchorage.

The Kuskokwim River Watershed flows from the interior to western Alaska. The Middle and Upper Kuskokwim section falls approximately 200 miles west of Anchorage. The Kuskokwim region is disconnected from the road system and is only accessible by plane, and interconnected via snowmachine, and boat.

The Upper Kuskokwim language (also called Kolchan or Goltsan or Dinak'i) is an Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené language family. It is spoken by the Upper Kuskokwim people in the Upper Kuskokwim River villages of Nikolai , Telida , and McGrath , Alaska .

The area in and around Denali comprises part of the aboriginal homeland of five Northern Athabascan Indian groups—Dena’ina, Koyukon, Lower Tanana, Upper Kuskokwim, and Western Ahtna. The affiliation of five Native groups with one national park is unique and illustrates the rich and diverse cultural heritage of the Denali area.

The upstream neighbors of the coastal Yup’ik peoples have for centuries been the Upper Kuskokwim Athabascans, who refer to themselves as Dina’ena (the people) or Dichinanek’ Hwt’ana (the timber river people).