Kutchin
Americannoun
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Kutchins,
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Kutchin
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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.
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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
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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 E. R. Billings
It is also difficult to understand how their signs would have in that manner reached the Kutchin of Eastern Alaska and the Kutine and Selish of British Columbia, who use signs now.
Like the Kutchin, they were in the Upper Status of savagery.
From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan
The Mohegan and Kutchin phratries call for special notice.
From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas
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 Lewis H. Morgan
The three-part docuseries, directed by Shareen Anderson and Po Kutchins, was released on the heels of Netflix’s “American Murder: Laci Peterson,” which hit the streamer last Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
Kutchins, a senior deputy state public defender who argued on behalf of the defense in the Kern County case, called Thursday’s decision “a real watershed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
“There is something of a sea change in how the court is dealing with the constitutional rights of the accused in criminal cases,” Kutchins said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
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