Native place names and language boundaries, Alaska

• Main Authors: Michael Krauss, Gary Holton, Jim Kerr, Colin T. West
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity 2018
• Subjects: places; featured; sociocultural; well being; Arctic; Yukon; Fairbanks; Anchorage; Atka; King Island; Kerr; Kayak; Adak; Stikine; McGrath; Fairweather; Norton Sound; Stikine River; St Michael; Kali; Kuna; Atlin; Point Hope; Mansfield; Klondike River; Attu Island; Teslin; Golovin; Alsek River; English Bay; Kayak Island; Crooked Creek; Huslia; Moosehide; King Cove; Larsen Bay; Montana Creek; Nuniaq; Pilot Point; Attu; Barrow; Beaver Creek; eyak; Ketchikan; Kodiak; Kuskokwim; Nome; Nunivak; Nunivak Island; Porcupine River; Savoonga; Tanacross; Yakutat; Yukon river; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5063/F1BK19N1

The native place names and language boundaries are a revised version of those established in the "Native Peoples and Languages of Alaska" map created by Michael E. Krauss (1974, revised 1982). The revised version was digitized and stored in GIS by Krauss et al. (2011). This data package includes the GIS data as a zipped ESRI file geodatabase (ipla.gdb.zip), which includes language boundaries and place names. This package also includes a script (NativePlaceNames_Regions.Rmd) detailing how to assign SASAP region names to the native places as well as the output .csv file (NativePlaceNames.csv). Citations: Krauss, Michael. 1974 Native Peoples and Languages of Alaska. (Revised 1982). Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center. Krauss, Michael, Gary Holton, Jim Kerr, and Colin T. West. 2011. Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska. Fairbanks and Anchorage: Alaska Native Language Center and UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research.