Chipewyan

American  

[chip-uh-wahy-uhn] / ˌtʃɪp əˈwaɪ ən /

noun

• Chipewyans,
  plural
• Chipewyan
  plural

1. a member of a First Nations tribe that inhabits northwestern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Rocky Mountains.

2. the Athabascan language spoken by the Chipewyan.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Chipewyan
  plural
• Chipewyans
  plural

Example Sentences

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Chipewyan Chipewyans

“This decision should close the chapter on the suggestion of an independence referendum,” said Allan Adam, the Chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, one of the main plaintiffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

In June, a fire got close to the subarctic, mostly indigenous hamlet of Fort Chipewyan, in northern Alberta.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Gahcho Kué, which means “place of the big rabbits” in the Dënësu¸łinë language of the region’s native Dené or Chipewyan people, is an expansive open pit mine ringed by sky-blue lakes.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 3, 2020

That money was put into projects like a community-owned grocery store in Fort Chipewyan, but also into a long-term trust he hopes will be used to buy a new home for his nation.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2020

Three men from Slave Lake, whom I had sent for to supply the place of our Chipewyan hunters, who were very inactive last winter, joined us at this place.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Chipewyans believed the cry was an omen of death.

From Time Magazine Archive

For an untold period in the past there has been a very interesting tripartite relationship between Bears, Caribou, and Caribou-eater Chipewyans about the south end of Nueltin Lake.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

Three of the Chipewyans reported in late October, 1947, that they had lost a good many of their Caribou to the Bears during that season.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper

Obtaining three Chipewyans and two Crees as guides, and taking no white servants, Hearne once more set out, on February 23, 1770, for the "Far-Away-Metal River."

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

It has had, undoubtedly, the same common origin with the Chipewyans, for their languages differ only in accent, and their mode of life is essentially the same.

From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 by John Franklin