An Aleutiq Dictionary for Port Graham and English Bay

Creators and Contributors Alaska Native Language Center (ANLC) (Contributor)
Derenty Tabios (Contributor)
National Bilingual Materials Development Center (Contributor)
Arthur Moonin (Contributor)
Carl Anahonak (Contributor)
Dan Anahonak Jr. (Author)
Ralph Johnson (Author)

Summary This dictionary is the outgrowth of an Alutiiq stem list begun by Jeff Leer in 1971 and continuing to the present under the auspices of the Alaska Native Language Center. The list started with stems used in the first Alutiiq publication by the Alaska Native Language Center, Unigkua'it Paluwigmiut Nanwalegmiut-hlu (retitled Sugcestun Unigkuat), which is a collection of traditional stories which was collected from people of Port Graham and transcribed by Derenty Tabios. This stem list continued to grow during grammatical research with Tabios, and during Leer's field trips and visits to Port Graham and English Bay many new stems were gathered from different people and added to the list.

National Bilingual Materials Development Center (NBMDC) held a workshop in October of 1977 with Arthur Moonin, Carl Anahonak, Dan Anahonak Jr., Ralph Johnson, and Jeff Leer as participants. During this workshop uncommon words were eliminated from the stem list and sentence examples were written by Arthur Moonin and Carl Anahonak. During November of 1977 the rest of the sentence examples were written by Anahonak, who was working for NBMDC, in collaboration with Leer.