Kahtnuht’ana Duhdeldiht means “Kenai River People’s Learning Place” in the Dena’ina language, and members of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe were excited to celebrate the grand opening of the facility recently.
KENAI, Alaska - Kahtnuht’ana Duhdeldiht means “Kenai River People’s Learning Place” in the Dena’ina language, and members of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe were excited to celebrate theThe state-of-the-art, 67,259-square-foot building will allow the tribe to house all of its educational programs under one roof, including summer camps, educational counseling, and early education for Alaska Native and non-Native families in the Kenai area.
The building features a large multipurpose room, called the gathering place, that can hold up to 300 people. Tribal Council member Virginia Wolf said a primary mission of the Learning Place is to teach the Dena’ina language and culture, including the values Alaska Native people live by. As for teaching the language, Wolf said she gets emotional thinking about how it is embedded into the Learning Place curriculum, considering her own mother was chastised for speaking her Native language.
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