Alaska: Last fluent speaker of Native language dies</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Alaska: Last fluent speaker of Native language dies"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Alaska,Last,fluent,speaker,of,Native,language,dies"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">23-01-2008</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Alaska: Last fluent speaker of Native language dies</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Alaska, USA (AP): Chief Marie Smith Jones, the last full-blooded Eyak and the last person fluent in her Native language, has died. Jones died peacefully Monday at her home in Anchorage. She was 89. Jones was born in Cordova on May 14, 1918, and grew up on Eyak Lake where her family had a homestead. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=7759225 " target="blank">www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=7759225 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show