Athabaskan
Americannoun
plural
Athabaskans,plural
Athabaskanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Full nineteen-twentieths of the Athabaskan population, in respect to its political relations, is British; all that is not British being either Russian or American.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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