Chilkats
- plural of Chilkat.
Example Sentences
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The Chilkats liked S. Hall Young, Muir’s proselytizing companion, and granted him permission to build a Presbyterian school and mission that grew to become Haines.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2018
Of necessity they must look among the aged ones of Chilkats for information.
From The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg
Certainly I am, and should have been half-way there by this time if I hadn't been delayed by a report of some sort of a row between the Chilkats and a party of whites.
From Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 by Various
They imagined that some of the interior Indians, who were strictly forbidden by the Chilkats to visit the coast, had disobeyed orders, and come to this unfrequented place to surreptitiously gather in a few seals.
From Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 by Various
Suddenly he exclaimed: "They are Chilkats, Phil, and they want something that they seem to think is in Nel-te's possession."
From Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 by Various
