native language

The Dena’ina people have lived on the Kenai Peninsula for thousands of years, but the group’s Indigenous language isn’t spoken as widely as it once was. That's why the Kenaitze Indian Tribe is launching an interactive language-learning software to help people learn Dena’ina words and phrases.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will host its second annual virtual Indigenous Language Film Festival this Thursday. Sixteen student-made films will highlight the Sugt’stun language and two dialects of the Dena’ina language.

Few things tie a place and a culture together like language. On this week's Kenai Conversation, native place names, how they’ve changed and why it…