Chippewyan


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Noun1.Chippewyan - the language spoken by the Chipewyan
Athabascan, Athapaskan language, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
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Among the early explorers it was known as the range of Chippewyan Mountains, and this Indian name is the one it is likely to retain in poetic usage.
This, however, was pointed out as another branch of the Great Chippewyan, or Rocky chain; being the Eutaw Mountains, at whose basis the wandering tribe of hunters of the same name pitch their tents.
Tyrrell, qui a ete le premier A cartographier le riviere Kazan en 1894, j'en conclus que le terme "Kazan" voulait dire "kasba" ("perdrix blanche" en langue den& et chippewyan).
The results of the study are a stepping-stone to proving that oil-sand development is having dire effects on surrounding communities, for Fort Chippewyan politicians.