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Chipewyan|tʃɪpəˈwaɪən|
Also Chippewyan, † Che-, etc.
[Cree.]
A member of an Athapaskan people of North American Indians; also, the language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
[1743J. Isham Obs. Hudson's Bay (1949) 177 The following is a small acc't of the (wechepowuck) Indians. 1775A. Graham Ibid. 316 [Nation:] Weechepowack... [Tribe:] Wee chip y an i wuck. ]1789A. Mackenzie Jrnl. Aug. in Voy. Montreal (1801) 106 It was a custom with the Chepewyan chiefs to go to war after they had shed tears, in order to wipe away the disgrace attached to such a feminine weakness. 1808G. Keith Let. 1 Dec. in L. F. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (1890) II. 78, I had it from an old woman who never had any communication with the Red Knives or Chipewyans. 1823J. Franklin Journey to Polar Sea 294 There are some other tribes who also speak dialects of the Chipewyan. 1910Encycl. Brit. II. 827/1 Athapascan, a widely distributed linguistic stock of North American Indians, the chief tribes included being the Chippewyan, Navajo, [etc.]. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory xi. 183 Detailed inquiries as to a clan organization among the Chipewyan of the Great Slave district yielded wholly negative results. 1963Times 25 Feb. p. xvi/5 The Chipewyan Indians—the greatest of the caribou-eating tribes. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics Spring 131 Chipewyan is the example of a language which permits only spirantal consonants finally. |