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Kenai (, )〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 Kenai ) 〕 (Dena'ina: ''Shk'ituk't'') is a city〔 〕 in Kenai Peninsula Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 6,942 at the 2000 census〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=United States Census Bureau )〕 and 7,100 as of the 2010 census.〔 == History == The city of Kenai is named after the local Dena'ina (Tanaina) word 'ken' or 'kena', which means 'flat, meadow, open area with few trees; base, low ridge', according to the Dena'ina Topical Dictionary by James Kari, Ph.D., published in 2007. This describes the area along the mouth and portion of the Kenai River near the City of Kenai. Archaeological evidence suggests that the area was first occupied by the Kachemak people from 1000 B.C., until they were displaced by the Dena'ina Athabaskan people around 1000 A.D. Before the arrival of the Russians, Kenai was a Dena'ina village called ''Shk'ituk't'', meaning "where we slide down." When Russian fur traders first arrived in 1741, about 1,000 Dena'ina lived in the village. The traders called the people "Kenaitze", which is a Russian term for "people of the flats", or "Kenai people". This name was later adopted when they were incorporated as the Kenaitze Indian Tribe in the early 1970s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kenai, Alaska」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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