Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Dena’ina (/dɨˈnaɪnə/ ; own name: in the Inland dialect [dənʌʔɪnʌ] in the Upper Inlet dialect [dənʌ͡ɪnʌ]) or formerly Tanaina are an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. They are the original inhabitants of the south central Alaska region ranging from Seldovia in the south to Chickaloon in the northeast Talkeetna in the north Lime Village in the Northwest and Pedro Bay in the Southwest.