Tanana
Hohudodetlaatl Denh | |
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 Aerial view of Tanana | |
  Tanana Location in Alaska | |
| Coordinates: 65°10′14″N 152°4′33″W / 65.17056°N 152.07583°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Census Area | Yukon-Koyukuk |
| Incorporated | June 7, 1961[1] |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Donna Folger[2] |
| • State senator | Click Bishop (R) |
| • State rep. | Mike Cronk (R) |
| Area | |
• Total | 15.00 sq mi (38.84 km2) |
| • Land | 10.67 sq mi (27.64 km2) |
| • Water | 4.33 sq mi (11.21 km2) |
| Elevation | 207 ft (63 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 246 |
| • Density | 23.06/sq mi (8.90/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-9 (Alaska (AKST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-8 (AKDT) |
| ZIP code | 99777 |
| Area code | 907 |
| FIPS code | 02-75160 |
Tanana /ˈtænənɑː/ (Hohudodetlaatl Denh in Koyukon) is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2010 census the population was 246, down from 308 in 2000. It was formerly known as Clachotin, adopted by Canadian French.
Jules Jetté (1864–1927),[4] a Jesuit missionary who worked in the area and documented the language, recorded the Koyukon Athabascan name for the village as Hohudodetlaatl Denh, literally, ‘where the area has been chopped’.[5] Several residents are chronicled in the 2012 Discovery Channel TV series Yukon Men. Almost 80% of the town's population are Native Americans, traditionally Koyukon (Denaakk'e) speakers of the large Athabaskan (Dené) language family. [6]
- ^ "Directory of Borough and City Officials 1974". Alaska Local Government. XIII (2). Juneau: Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs: 79. January 1974.
- ^ 2015 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory. Juneau: Alaska Municipal League. 2015. p. 151.
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
- ^ "Biography – JETTÉ, JULES – Volume XV (1921-1930)". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval. 2005. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
- ^ Jetté, Jules. 1910. On the Geographical Names of the Ten'a, Microfilm AM 34:688-701. Jesuit Oregon Province Archives, Foley Library, Gonzaga University.
- ^ Jones, Eliza, Jules Jette and James Kari. Koyukon Athabascan Dictionary. University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska Native Language Center, April 2000:1118.