Athabaskan
Americannoun
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Athabaskans,
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Athabaskan
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adjective
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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
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
Denali is a native Koyukon Athabaskan word for "the Great One" or "the High One."
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2015
The area was traditionally used as a staging area for Tlingit traders who would travel up and over the Chilkoot Pass to meet interior Athabaskan tribes and exchange goods.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2015
Footnote 52: It is not unlikely, however, that these Athabaskan alternations are primarily tonal in character.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
It had begun to be recognized amongst the Athabaskans.
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
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
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
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
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