Sentence examples for athabaskan from inspiring English sources

Athabaskan languages typically contain large inventories of consonants (often 30 or more) and smaller inventories of vowels (usually 5 7).

Pioneer Park (formerly called Alaskaland; opened 1967) is a theme park that features replicas of an Athabaskan village and mining and gold-rush towns.

The navy's near collapse was characterized by a series of "incidents" in the late winter of 1949 when sailors in the deployed destroyers Athabaskan and Crescent and the carrier Magnificent staged brief strikes.

Denali ("The Great One" or "The High One") is the ancient Athabaskan Indian name for the mountain.

Like most other Athabaskan tribes, the Slave were separated into a number of independent bands, each of which was rather loosely organized, with only nominal leaders, and was associated with certain hunting territories.

About one-fourth of the people are American Indians (First Nations; [see Sidebar: Tribal Nomenclature]); most belong to groups speaking Athabaskan languages, of which the Gwich'in (Kutchin) group is the largest.

Hare, also called Kawchottine, group of Athabaskan-speaking North American Indians originally living northwest of what is now Great Bear Lake in far northwestern Canada.

The Athabaskan-speaking tribes of the Southwest are the Navajo and the Apache.

Sekani, also spelled Tsek'ehne, Athabaskan-speaking North American Indian group that lived mostly in river valleys on the eastern and western slopes of the Rocky Mountains in what are now British Columbia and Alberta, Can.

Gwich'in, also called Kutchin, a group of Athabaskan-speaking North American Indian tribes inhabiting the basins of the Yukon and Peel rivers in eastern Alaska and Yukon a land of coniferous forests interspersed with open, barren ground.

The northwestern California province included the Athabaskan-speaking Tututni-Tolowa as well as the Karok, Yurok, Wiyot, and Hupa.