Holikachuk, Alaska

This article is about a village in Alaska. For other things called Holikachuk, see Holikachuk.

Holikachuk[pronunciation?] or Huligachagat (Xiyighelinghdi in Holikachuk language, Xiyeghelinghdi in Deg Xinag) is an abandoned village on the Innoko River in the U.S. state of Alaska.

A post office operated here from 1941 to 1964.[1] The residents of Holikachuk relocated to Grayling in 1962.[2] The name of the village is also the source for the name of the Holikachuk Athabaskan language.

  1. ^ "Geological Survey Professional Paper". 1949.
  2. ^ Krauss, Michael E. 1973. Na-Dene. Linguistics in North America, ed. by T.A. Sebeok, 903-78. (Current Trends in Linguistics 10). The Hague: Mouton.