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Athapascan

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapaskan.
2.
A group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir).  Synonyms: Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapaskan, Athapaskan language.





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"Athapascan" Quotes from Famous Books



... None of the inhabitants, to be sure, had risen above barbarism. Yet certain nations or tribes had advanced much higher than others. There was a great contrast, for example, between the well-organized barbarians of Peru and the almost completely unorganized Athapascan ...
— The Red Man's Continent - A Chronicle of Aboriginal America, Volume 1 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Ellsworth Huntington


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