Dogrib

British  

/ ˈdɒɡˌrɪb /

noun

1. a member of a Dene Native Canadian people of northern Canada

2. the Athapascan language of this people

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Etymology

Origin of Dogrib

from Dogrib Thlingchadinne, dog's flank, referring to the people's belief that they are descended from a dog

Example Sentences

With drums beating a steady cadence and 1,000 Dogrib, Slavey, Chipewyan and Cree Indians and metis looking on, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney last week signed a tentative agreement calling for $403 million and 109,000 sq. mi. of federal lands to be turned over to native peoples in the western subarctic end of the region that stretches across the top of North America.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inconsistent capitalization is unchanged, as is the variable spelling of “Dog Rib” : “Dog-rib” : “Dogrib”.

From Project Gutenberg

Thus permitted, Waboose opened her lips for the first time—disclosing a double row of bright little teeth in the act—and said that she had been sent by her mother in search of Maqua and his son, as she had reason to believe that the camp was in danger of being attacked by Dogrib Indians.

From Project Gutenberg

Greygoose River was the name given to it by the Dogrib Indians who dwelt in its neighbourhood, and who were wont, every spring and autumn, to descend its waters nearly to the sea in quest of game.

From Project Gutenberg

For at the very time that the Eskimos, in their remote home on the ice-encumbered sea, were informally debating the propriety of making an unprovoked attack on the Dogrib Indians—whom they facetiously styled Fire-spouters—the red men were also holding a very formal and solemn council of war as to the advisability of making an assault on those presumptuous Eskimos, or eaters-of-raw-flesh, who ventured to pay an uncalled-for visit to the Greygoose River—their ancestral property—every spring.

From Project Gutenberg