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- noun Plural form of
Athapascan .
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Examples
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Immediately south of the Athapascans was the most extensive of all the families, the _Algonquin_.
French Pathfinders in North America William Henry Johnson
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Among the Athapascans who occupied all the western part of the northern pine forests, clothing was made of deerskins with the hair left on.
The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911
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Athapascans at the sources of the Copper River, and then make a good profit by selling them to the American traders of the coast.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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Athapascans for a long time found a similar body of middlemen in the
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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The Athapascans, from their great compact northern area between Hudson Bay, the Saskatchewan River, and the Eskimo shores of the Arctic Ocean sent southward a detached offshoot comprising the Navajos, Apaches and Lipans, who were found along the Rio
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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Such was the position of the Ugalentz tribe of Tlingits near the mouth of the Copper River in relation to the up-stream Athapascans; of the
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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In the former region the Athapascans occupy most of the western interior, being bounded on the north by the Arctic
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Crees and the Athapascans, or among the Indians of Oregon.
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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