Eyak
Language family: Na-Dene
Geographical use: Prince William District in southeast Alaska
Information: Indian language
At the end of 2009, the last Eyak speaker, Marie Smith Jones, died in Anchorage at the age of 89. She was probably the last full blood Eyak. Her name in Eyak was Udach' Kuqax*a'a'ch, meaning a sound that calls people from far away. She helped the university of Alaska to compile an Eyak dictionary.
Today the Eyak nation is the smallest indigenous group of Alaska. The tribe does everything to keep its culture alive.
