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- adjective Pertaining to a group of peoples mostly inhabiting
Alaska , westernCanada , the Pacific coast ofCalifornia andOregon , and the Navajo and Apache peoples in the American Southwest. Sometimes thought to have been the second migration of peoples into the Americas. - proper noun The
family oflanguages spoken by these peoples. - noun Any member of these peoples.
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Examples
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This will require the destruction of Canada's boreal forest a carbon sink, it will threaten the Athabascan people, contaminate the Athabasca River, and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
Lucy Emerson-Bell: Stay Cool, Mr. President: a Millennial Cri de Coeur Lucy Emerson-Bell 2011
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This aspect of the story was apparently inspired by a Northern Athabascan belief.
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This will require the destruction of Canada's boreal forest a carbon sink, it will threaten the Athabascan people, contaminate the Athabasca River, and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
Lucy Emerson-Bell: Stay Cool, Mr. President: a Millennial Cri de Coeur Lucy Emerson-Bell 2011
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This will require the destruction of Canada's boreal forest a carbon sink, it will threaten the Athabascan people, contaminate the Athabasca River, and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
Lucy Emerson-Bell: Stay Cool, Mr. President: a Millennial Cri de Coeur Lucy Emerson-Bell 2011
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This will require the destruction of Canada's boreal forest a carbon sink, it will threaten the Athabascan people, contaminate the Athabasca River, and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
Lucy Emerson-Bell: Stay Cool, Mr. President: a Millennial Cri de Coeur Lucy Emerson-Bell 2011
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This will require the destruction of Canada's boreal forest a carbon sink, it will threaten the Athabascan people, contaminate the Athabasca River, and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
Lucy Emerson-Bell: Stay Cool, Mr. President: a Millennial Cri de Coeur Lucy Emerson-Bell 2011
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Dogs were an important part of life for the Athabascan population in North America, and were their only domesticated animal.
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Dogs were an important part of life for the Athabascan population in North America, and were their only domesticated animal.
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This will require the destruction of Canada's boreal forest a carbon sink, it will threaten the Athabascan people, contaminate the Athabasca River, and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
Lucy Emerson-Bell: Stay Cool, Mr. President: a Millennial Cri de Coeur Lucy Emerson-Bell 2011
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This will require the destruction of Canada's boreal forest a carbon sink, it will threaten the Athabascan people, contaminate the Athabasca River, and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
Lucy Emerson-Bell: Stay Cool, Mr. President: a Millennial Cri de Coeur Lucy Emerson-Bell 2011
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