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Dena'ina

1000 – present
Native nationNorth America

The only Northern Dene people to reach saltwater, dozens of villages ringing Cook Inlet from the Kenai Peninsula to the site of modern Anchorage and out to Lake Clark.

Russian and then American towns rose on their inlet — Kenai (1791) and Anchorage (1915); pressed but persistent, the Dena'ina hold lands through Cook Inlet Region and revive their language to 2026.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 4 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Dena'ina — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1741 · 1867 · 1971.

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