Kaska

About the Kaska language

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Interactive Language Lesson with Audio

Click on the image to view the language lesson.

Testloa George Smith – Ross River Dialect

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Kaska Downloadable Learner Resources

About These Resources

This page provides links to digital copies of language lessons, literacy session booklets, and story books that have been prepared over the past thirty years by the Yukon Native Language Centre and Elders and community members from Kaska First Nations, including Liard First Nation and Ross River Dena Council in the Yukon. The work of all contributors to these materials is gratefully acknowledged here.

Recognizing the importance for Yukon First Nations governments, Elders, advocates, learners, and teachers of Kaska to have access to language resources, the Council of Yukon First Nations‘ Yukon Native Language Centre and Yukon Education‘s First Nations Programs and Partnerships Unit have worked together to provide the language materials below with assistance from Christopher Cox. These digital resources are available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .

It is hoped that they will provide additional support for all those interested in studying, learning, and teaching the Kaska language. To order printed copies of any of these resources from YNLC, please consult the current catalogue of publications.

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Kaska Language Lessons with Audio

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Kaska Storybooks and ReadAlong Storybooks with Audio

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Kaska Literacy Sessions and In-Services

Table of Contents for Literacy Sessions
This document contains the general topics covered for each session.

1. Kaska Literacy Training Sessions – 1986-87. Yukon Native Language Centre, Watson Lake 1986, Ross River 1987. 
2. Kaska Literacy Training Materials, 1988–1990.  
3. Kaska Literacy Session – 1994. Workshop held at the Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, April 27, 28, 29, 1994.
4. Kaska Literacy Session – 1995. Workshop held at Watson Lake, Yukon, May 23, 24, 25, 26, 1995.  
5. Kaska Literacy Session – 1996. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 15–17, 1996.  
6. Kaska Literacy Session – 1999. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 6–7, 1999.
    
7. Kaska Literacy Sessions – 2000-01. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 18–19, 2000 and April 18–20, 2001.  
8. Kaska Literacy Session – 2001. Watson Lake, Yukon, November 14–15, 2001.  
9. Kaska Literacy Session – 2002. Whitehorse, Yukon, May 22–24, 2002.  
10. Kaska Literacy Session – 2003. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 13–15, 2003.  
11. Kaska Literacy Session – 2005. Held at Johnson Elementary School, Watson Lake, Yukon, May 11–13, 2005.  
12. Kaska Literacy Session – 2007. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 2–3, 2007 and June 7–8, 2007.  
13. Kaska In-Service – 2008. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, February 26–28, 2008.  
14. Kaska Literacy Session – 2009. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, April 23–24, 2009.  
15. Kaska Literacy Session – 2010. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 5–6, 2010.  
16. Kaska Literacy Session – 2011. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 2–3, 2011.  
17. Kaska In-Service – 2012. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, April 26–27, 2012.  
18. Kaska In-Service – 2013. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, February 27–28, 2013.  
19. Kaska Literacy Session – 2015. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 12–13, 2015.  
20. Kaska Literacy Session – 2016. Yukon Native Language Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, May 11–13, 2016.  

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Search all Kaska print resources

For detailed instructions on how to search, view, download, and print these materials, please see the language learning resources guide.
This embedded document contains all Kaska print resources. It allows you to search all documents at one time. Click your mouse in the document window below and then Type ‘Ctrl’ and ‘f’ keys on your keyboard. Type in a search word or phrase in the small box that pops up and then hit ‘enter’ key. You can type in english or Kaska but you cannot use diacritics in the search.

Download all Kaska print resources by subject

• Download all printed Kaska language resources (1,103 pages, 118 MB). 
• Download all printed Kaska language lessons (140 pages, 5 MB). 
• Download all printed Kaska literacy sessions (751 pages, 76 MB). 
• Download all printed Kaska story books (212 pages, 38 MB). 

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Other Learning Resources

1. YNLC Kaska YouTube Channel 
2. Language Map
3. Kaska Alphabet
4. Kaska Talking Dictionary
5. Kaska Dictionary on Vimeo
6. Kaska Language Website
7. Kaska Dictionary on Vimeo
8. Kaska – Stories from Watson Lake (Collection of stories told by Language Teacher Mrs. Donnessey at Watson Lake Elementary Not for sale – but contact YNLC for a place of purchase)
9. Kaska – The Legend of Suguyā and Sā Dene (Told by Alfred Caesar, published by Aboriginal Language Services Not for sale – but contact YNLC for a place of purchase)
10. Kaska Learners – Facebook page
11. Guzagikeh on Instagram
12. Omniglot – the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages