Athapaskan
- a variation of Athabaskan.
Example Sentences
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Malhi’s specialty is tracing genetic history, so his articles have titles like “Distribution of Y chromosomes among native North Americans: a study of Athapaskan population history.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2018
In the Dakota and Algonkin dialects 2 is almost always related to “arms” or “hands,” and in the Athapaskan to “feet.”
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard
The elder people amongst the Athapaskan Indians, in Hearne's day, would reprove the young folk for "speaking disrespectfully" of different beasts and birds.
From Pioneers in Canada by Wallcousins, E.
They never became fur trappers in the same complete way as did the northern Algonkian and Athapaskan peoples.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Murphy, Robert F.
The Athapaskan group of Indians indeed represents the "Northern Indians" of the Hudson's Bay Company's reports and explorers.
From Pioneers in Canada by Wallcousins, E.
