Sentence examples for Athabascan from inspiring English sources

Tanana River, river, east-central Alaska, U.S. Its name is an Athabascan word meaning "river trail".

Mr. and Mrs. Bates, for instance, traveled by commercial jet from San Francisco to Fairbanks, with a stop in Seattle and a change of planes in Anchorage, followed by a flight in a small single-engine plane to Arctic Village, a tiny Athabascan Indian community south of the wildlife refuge.

In America north of Mexico, where the Indian population was thinly spread, there were a number of language groups e.g., the Eskimo-Aleut, Algonquian, Athabascan, and Siouan each of which covered large territories and included some 20 or more closely related idioms.

Of these languages 20 belong to the Athabascan family; they are spoken in the Northwest Territory, the Yukon, and adjacent parts of Canada, west to Cook Inlet in Alaska; in two isolated areas of the Pacific coast (southwestern Oregon and northern California); and in the southwestern United States (mostly in New Mexico and Arizona).

There were 12 major language groups among the peoples living in what is now Canada: Algonquian, Iroquoian, Siouan, Athabascan, Kootenaian, Salishan, Wakashan, Tsimshian, Haidan, Tlinglit, Inuktitut, and Beothukan.

Named for the Koyukon, an Athabascan Indian people, the river was visited in 1842 44 by the Russian explorer Lavrenty Zagoskin.

He also studied the Athabascan, Takelman, Kusan, and Yakonan language stocks of Oregon.

The population is a mix of Athabascan-speaking North American Indians, Inuit (Eskimo), and other Canadians.

The Navajo are believed to be descendants of Athabascan-speaking tribes from the Pacific Coast, Canada and Alaska that arrived in the Southwest at least 1,000 years ago.

Today numbering 7,000 people in 15 villages, the Gwich'in are the northernmost of Athabascan-speaking Indians.

Na-Dené languages, major grouping (phylum or superstock) of North American Indian languages, consisting of three language families Athabascan (or Athapascan), Haida, and Tlingit with a total of 22 languages.