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The Ahtna (also Ahtena, Atna, Ahtna-kohtaene, or Copper River) are an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. The people's homeland called Atna Nenn' , is located in the Copper River area of southern Alaska, and the name Ahtna derives from the local name for the Copper River.
Ahtna, Inc. stewards over 1,500,000 acres (6,100 km 2) of lands granted through land claims under ANCSA finalized between 1971 and 1998. The Ahtna region is located primarily in the Copper River Census Area of Alaska, with a small spillover into the neighboring Denali Borough in the area of Cantwell.
Southern portion of the Copper River. The Copper River or Ahtna River (/ ˈ ɑː t n ə /), Ahtna Athabascan ‘Atna’tuu ([ʔatʰnaʔtʰuː]), "river of the Ahtnas", [1] Tlingit Eeḵhéeni ([ʔìːq.híː.nì]), "river of copper", [2] [3] is a 290-mile (470 km) river in south-central Alaska in the United States.
In the Upper Tanana region, native copper (from trading with Ahtna people or "Copper Indians") was available and used in addition to the traditional material types to manufacture tools such as knives, projectile points, awls, ornaments, and axes.
Chitina (Ahtna Athabascan Tsedi Na ' [tʃɛ.diː.näʔ] < tsedi "copper" + na ' "river") [2] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 126, up from 123 in 2000.
Gakona / ɡ ə ˈ k oʊ n ə / (Ggax Kuna’ [2] in Ahtna Athabascan) is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Copper River Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population of the CDP was 169, down from 218 in 2010. [3] It is home to the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
Copper Center (Tl’aticae’e [2] in Ahtna) is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Copper River in Copper River Census Area, Alaska, United States. By road, it is 196 miles (315 km) northeast of Anchorage. At the 2020 census the population was 338, up from 328 in 2000. [3]
The Act lays out the specifics of the corporations' status. Here is an excerpt of the relevant portion: [5] 43 U.S.C. § 1606 (a) Division of Alaska into twelve geographic regions; common heritage and common interest of region; area of region commensurate with operations of Native association; boundary disputes, arbitration.