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- adjective Alternative spelling of
Athabascan . - proper noun Alternative spelling of
Athabascan . - noun Alternative spelling of
Athabascan .
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In addition to Basso, see Julie Cruikshank, "'Getting the Words Right': Perspectives on Naming and Places in Athapaskan Oral History," Arctic Anthropology 27 (1990): 52-65; and Vine Deloria, Jr.,
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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"'Getting the Words Right': Perspectives on Naming and Places in Athapaskan Oral History."
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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They were linguistically related to the Athapaskan speakers of Alaska and western Canada and worked their way south over a period of centuries.
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By giving shelter and aid to them, the Spanish had incurred the wrath of local Athapaskan bands—Apaches—who had conducted raids against settlements almost since they began.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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They were linguistically related to the Athapaskan speakers of Alaska and western Canada and worked their way south over a period of centuries.
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Athapaskan clan histories document travel across glaciers from several directions.
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In Alaska and Canada, Athapaskan oral histories describe how features of the landscape, or the elements, such as the moon, sun, wind, stars, and so on, were originally human beings and whose spirits are now embodied in aspects of the natural world.
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Eyak, Athapaskan, and Tlingit place names encapsulate information and local ecology and climate now rendered invisible by English names.
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Today, as Athapaskan people demonstrate concern with climate change, there is a contemporary validity to these stories.
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Now, astonishingly, it appeared that a dialect of Athapaskan might have migrated as far south as the Peruvian Amazon.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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