Crossword clues for athabascan
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, Athapaskan, from the name of the North American Indian people, from Lake Athabaska in northern Alberta, Canada, from Woods Cree (Algonquian) Athapaskaw, said by Webster to mean literally "grass or reeds here and there," referring to the delta region west of the lake. Also in reference to their language group.
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to a group of peoples mostly inhabiting Alaska, western Canada, the Pacific coast of California and Oregon, and the Navajo and Apache peoples in the American Southwest. Sometimes thought to have been the second migration of peoples into the Americas. alt. Pertaining to a group of peoples mostly inhabiting Alaska, western Canada, the Pacific coast of California and Oregon, and the Navajo and Apache peoples in the American Southwest. Sometimes thought to have been the second migration of peoples into the Americas. n. Any member of these peoples. n. The family of languages spoken by these peoples.
Usage examples of "athabascan".
In the produce section, three Athabascan woodsmen looked over the apples while an old Chinese woman muttered to a bin of withered eggplants.
He was a member of an Athabascan family that was known for the quality of the dogs they raised.
Alaskan and Athabascan friends were in cahoots, nicely co-ordinating their efforts to keep us wrong-footed and ensuring that we were in A while we should have been in B, and vice versa.
It is known that the Creeks, Alabamas, Yamassees and Athabascan tribes were recent arrivalsand that long before them there dwelled in Florida a people with a distinct culture.
Hosteen Nakai began teaching him about the Navajo relationship with the world, and at the University of New Mexico when in the presence of the famed Alaska Jack Campbell, who was teaching him early Athabascan culture in Anthropology 209.
Warriors off the Great Plains moving in on us peaceful Athabascan farmers and shepherds.
The Abos were obviously a branch of the Athabascan Indians, as indicated by their height and broad--headed ness.
It is known that the Creeks, Alabamas, Yamassees and Athabascan tribes were recent arrivals--and that long before them there dwelled in Florida a people with a distinct culture.
Her cheekbones were high and flat and just beginning to take on that bronze tint he had noticed during previous summers, all gifts of her Aleut heritage, although the high bridge of her nose was all Anglo and the jut of her chin as Athabascan as it got.
They are part of a sizable language group that includes the large Athabascan tribe of northern Canada, the Navajo, the Hoopa on the coast of northern California and the decimated group who lived near Grants Pass in southwestern Oregon.
More than half of them were Alaska Native, mostly Aleut and Athabascan and Yupiq, from the looks of them, with maybe a few Inupiaq thrown in.
Hunter here is mostly Athabascan Indian, and the T-brothers have Tlingit and Jap blood in them.
But the rate of his progress was such that he pessimistically calculated that it would take him at least two years before he could preach with any degree of understanding in the Athabascan tongue.
Some of the finest sled dog racers are Athabascans from Alaska and the Yukon, yet most of them can no longer afford to compete in some of the top races.
It was luminous as the Alaskan valleys when on white arctic nights they are lighted, the Athabascans believe, by the gleaming spears of hunting gods.