Qatuk’e’usht

A Dena’ina name for this area, meaning

Something Drifts
Up to It

A settlement gathered

A townsite was drawn

Nine names were put forward

Black-and-white photograph looking down from a hill across the densely packed tent settlement at Ship Creek. — Ship Creek tent town, June 27, 1915. August Cohn / Alaska Engineering Commission. Catalog and rights statement.

Anchorage remained

The reported result is the threshold. The surviving evidence and its limits are preserved in the naming.

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the naming the 1915 record

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