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.

Exact synonyms: Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapaskan
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).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Athapascan

Atenism
Aterian
Ateso
Athabascan
Athabascans
Athabaskan
Athabaskans
Athan
Athanasian
Athanasian Creed
Athanasianism
Athanasios
Athanasius
Athanasius the Great
Athapascan
Athapaskan
Athapaskan language
Atharva-Veda
Atharvaveda
Athelstan
Athena
Athene
Athene noctua
Athenian
Athenians
Athens
Atherinidae
Atherinopsis
Atherinopsis californiensis

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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