Kutchin

American  

[kooch-in] / ˈkʊtʃ ɪn /

noun

plural

Kutchins,

plural

Kutchin

1. a member of a group of North American Indians who live in the region of the lower Mackenzie River in northwestern Canada and the Yukon and Porcupine rivers of northeastern Alaska.

2. the Athabascan language of the Kutchin.

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Etymology

Origin of Kutchin

First recorded in 1930–35; from Kutchin gwičin “people of, dwellers at (the place specified),” occurring as the final element in the names of local bands, and misunderstood as a designation for all Kutchin

Example Sentences

The Kutchin and Eastern Finneh were modeled after the clay pipes of the Hudson Bay Company, but they also carve very pretty ones out of birch knots and the root of the wild rose-bush.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.

The Mohegan and Kutchin phratries call for special notice.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

The Kutchin make pretty pipe-stems out of goose-quills wound about with porcupine-quills.

From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.

A brief reference may be made to the skin lodge of the Kutchin or Louchoux of the Yukon and Peel Rivers.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.

The two Indians wore the pointed hunting shirt of tanned moose-skin, ornamented with beads and fringes which is still common to the Kutchin tribes.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick