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State historical panel votes to officially recognize two Indigenous landmark names


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A state historical commission took up the task of naming -- and renaming -- some landmarks in Alaska. Back in April 5 2021, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Commission passed a resolution to officially recognize a long-used name for a lake located about 16 miles northwest of Talkeetna. The commission recommended calling the previously unnamed lake Daltełi – or Upper Cook Inlet dialect Dena’ina for berry buds, according to the Dena’ina Noun Dictionary. That name was forwarded along to an
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