Yuyanq’ Ch’ex — pronounced “you-yonk check” — means “Heaven’s Breath” in Dena’ina. Advocate William Pagaran tapped Kenaitze elder Helen Dick of Kenai, one of the few speakers who learned Dena’ina as a child, for help finding a new name.
For decades, those mountains have been called North and South Suicide — names that are said to have come from railroad workers who were remarking on the steepness of the slopes. The names were codified by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1951.
“It’s painful, particularly in our state,” he said Friday. “We’re number two in the U.S. We had 204 suicide fatalities in 2020 — that’s 27.5 per 100,000. But the two-year push has largely come from William Pagaran, a Palmer man who runs faith-based non–profit called Carry the Cure, aimed at curtailing teen suicide in Alaska. from 2020, he said the name change “makes a huge statement to all that we value life.” That same year, Pagaran led a hike up the south peak in the name of suicide awareness.
Yuyanq’ Ch’ex — pronounced “you-yonk check” — means “Heaven’s Breath” in Dena’ina. Pagaran tapped Kenaitze elder Helen Dick, of Kenai, one of the few Dena’ina speakers who learned the language as a child, for help finding a new name.
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