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Alaskan Athabaskans
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The Alaskan Athabascans,[2][3][4][5][6][7] Alaskan Athapascans[8] or Dena[9] (Russian: атабаски Аляски, атапаски Аляски)[10] are Alaska Native peoples of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. They are the original inhabitants of the interior of Alaska.[citation needed]
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6,400[1] | |
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Alaska | |
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Northern Athabaskan languages, American English (Alaskan variant), Russian (historically) | |
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Shamanism (largely ex), Christianity |
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Formerly they identified as a people by the word Tinneh (nowadays Dena; cf. Dene for Canadian Athabaskans). Taken from their own language, it means simply "men" or "people".[11]