The new marker along the Coastal Trail says “Nuch’ishtunt,” which means “the place protected from the wind” in Dena’ina Athabascan.
Long before that, according to the book “Shem Pete’s Alaska,” the Dena’ina set up seasonal salmon fishing camps in the area. That ended when federal officials closed the area to commercial fishing in the 1950s.
At a ceremony celebrating the new signpost, Leggett shared an anecdote about meeting other young Alaska Natives when he was 19 years old and working at the Alaska Native Heritage Center. “And I told them that I was Dena’ina. They said, ‘Well, what’s that?’ Then they said, ‘Well, where’s your village?’I said, ‘We’re from here.’ And some of them who had grown up in Anchorage said, ‘Well, I didn’t know Native people lived here.’”
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