Dialects and Bands
There are four main dialect divisions and eight bands (tribal unions):
- Lower Ahtna (own name Atnahwt’aene)
- Chitina/Taral Band
- Tonsina/Klutina Band
- Central Ahtna or Middle Ahtna (own name Dan’ehwt’aene)
- Gulkona/Gakona Band
- Western Ahtna (own name Tsaay Hwt’aene)
- Tyone/Mendeltna Band
- Cantwell/Denali Band
- Upper Ahtna (own name Tatl’ahwt’aene)
- Sanford River/Chistochina Band
- Slana/Batzulnetas Band
- Mentasta Band
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Famous quotes containing the word bands:
“While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 2:6,7.