A small nation at the mouth of the Copper River near Cordova, speaking a language all its own — a bridge between the Tlingit and the interior Dene.
Squeezed between the Tlingit, Chugach and Ahtna and then by the cannery town of Cordova, the Eyak dwindled; their language went dormant in 2008 with Marie Smith Jones, but the Native Village of Eyak governs at Cordova to 2026.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Eyak — the shape you scrub through changes in 1783 · 1790 · 1867 · 2008.
Broad survey of Gulf of Alaska peoples including the Eyak of the Copper River mouth (broad context, not Eyak-specific).
Ethnography of the Tlingit neighbors who absorbed much of the small Eyak nation (broad regional context).