# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marie-smith-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:49:38.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marie-smith-jones"
name: "Marie Smith Jones"
slug: "marie-smith-jones"
description: "Marie Smith Jones was an American national who was the last surviving speaker of the Eyak language of Southcentral Alaska. She was born in Cordova, Alaska, was an honorary chief of the Eyak Nation and the last remaining full-blooded Eyak. In a 2005 interview, Smith Jones explained that her name in Eyak is 'udAch' k'uqAXA'a'ch' which translates as 'a sound that calls people from afar'."
tagline: "Last speaker of the Eyak language (1918–2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Marie_Smith_Jones.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-05-14"
deathDate: "2008-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.36936933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Мэры Сміт Джонс"
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    title: "Смит Джонс, Мэри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump