Deloy'ges

Deloy Ges is a hillside above the meeting of the Anvik and Yukon rivers, in the homeland of the Deg Hit’an. The name also identifies the nearby community of Anvik, whose older village sites lay beside the river. A Deg Xinag story tells how Raven piled up sand to make a mountain. When the sand slipped beneath him, he struck it with his walking stick, making the gullies that mark the hillside. The river junction and its prominent bluff remain landmarks in the traditional landscape of the lower Yukon.