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Definition of Athapascan
1. Noun. A member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska.
Generic synonyms: American Indian, Indian, Red Indian
Specialized synonyms: Apache, Chipewyan, Hupa, Mattole, Navaho, Navajo
2. Noun. A group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir).
Generic synonyms: American Indian, American-indian Language, Amerind, Amerindian Language, Indian
Specialized synonyms: Apache, Navaho, Navajo, Hupa, Mattole, Chipewyan, Chippewaian, Chippewyan
Geographical relationships: America, The States, U.s., U.s.a., United States, United States Of America, Us, Usa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Athapascan
Literary usage of Athapascan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1907)
"In the case of so large and widely scattered a people as the Athapascan, ...
.Some of these are : Were was the primitive home of the Athapascan, ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"... and nowhere in America were such mysteries loftier and more impressive than
among the tribes of the Great Plains. II. AN Athapascan ..."
3. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"The inhospitable soil of ran tribes *^e great Athapascan area suggests no ...
It is certain that the Apache tribes of Mexico belong to the Athapascan stock, ..."
4. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"... natural processes rather than by men. Believes that man did not come to the
New World until long after the time of the "artifacts." [9] Athapascan 4111. ..."
5. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"... and nowhere in America were such mysteries loftier and more impressive than
among the tribes of the Great Plains. II. AN Athapascan ..."
6. Introduction to the Study of North America Archaeology by Cyrus Thomas (1898)
"The North Pacific Section—Athapascan Region. As the marked variations in several
respects found ... Athapascan ..."
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