Athabaskan
Americannoun
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Athabaskans,
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Athabaskan
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Katchatag, 67, is Native Alaskan — Athabaskan and Iñupiat — from Shaktoolik, a village of about 200 people on a narrow, fast-eroding sand spit on the Bering Sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Being good stewards entails changing our relationship with food, said Dune Lankard, founder and president of the Native Conservancy and an Eyak Athabaskan.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2021
Ahtna Athabaskan hunters discovered the copper deposits in the river valley that featured prominently in ancient regional trade routes.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2021
Thousands of chum salmon still swim up the Tanana River every summer to spawn, and the run remains a central cultural event for the indigenous Athabaskan people who live there today.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2015
The water-system in question forms the centre of the great Athabaskan area—the centre, but not the whole.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
These expatiate upon the difference between members of the same class, so as to separate, not only Caribs from Algonkins, or Peruvians from Athabaskans, but Peruvians from Caribs, and Patagonians from Brazilians.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The divisions and subdivisions of the Athabaskans are as follows:— 1.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
To this we may add, that it is the Hudson's Bay territory rather than Canada to which the British Athabaskans belong.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
It had begun to be recognized amongst the Athabaskans.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Their points of contrast to the Athabaskans indicate it also.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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