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Slave, n.2|sleɪv|
Also Slavey; 9 Slavé, Slavi.
[tr. Cree awahkān captive, slave; the disyllabic Eng. forms reflect a local jargon var. with Fr. suffix -ais.]
(A member of) a grouping of Athapascan-speaking North American Indians living in the boreal forest region of northwestern Canada; the language of this people. Also attrib. or as adj.
1789A. MacKenzie Let. 22 May in L. R. Masson Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (1889) 30 (Récits section), Mr. Leroux arrived on the 22nd March from the other side of Slave Lake where he had seen a great number of Red Knives and Slave Indians. 1801― Voyages from Montreal (1903) I. viii. 340 When this country was formerly invaded by the Knisteneaux, they found the Beaver Indians inhabiting the land about Portage la Roche; and the adjoining tribe were those whome they called slaves. They drove both these tribes before them; when the latter proceeded down the river from the Lake of the Hills, in consequence of which that part of it obtained the name of the Slave River. 1851J. Richardson Arctic Searching Exped. I. viii. 242 The comfort, and not unfrequently the lives, of parties of the timid Slave or Hare Indians are sacrificed. 1862R. G. Latham Elements Comparative Philol. lv. 391 The Beaver Indian is transitional to the Slave and the Chepewyan proper. 1875H. H. Bancroft Native Races Pacific States III. 587 A greater divergence from the stock language is observable in the dialect of the Tutchone Kutchin, which, with those of..the Slavé of Francis Lake..might almost be called a dialectic division of the Tinneh language. 1890W. C. Bompas (title) Hymns in the Tenni or Slavi language. 1907F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians N. of Mexico I. 440 Petitot restricted the term [sc. Etchareottine] to the Etcheridiegottine, whom he distinguished from the Slaves proper. 1932D. Jenness Indians of Canada xxiii. 390 In summer the Slave lived in conical lodges covered with brush or spruce bark. 1938E. M. North Bk. Thousand Tongues 870/1 Slave... Spoken by Indians living along the Mackenzie River, northwestern Canada. 1946J. J. Honigmann Ethnogr. & Acculturation of Fort Nelson Slave 16 He is married to a Slave woman and in his cultural affiliations and back⁓ground is more Slave than Cree. 1959E. Tunis Indians x. 132 There was a group, the Etchaottine (Slaves), who were kind to old people. 1974Sunday Tel. 18 Aug. 5/5 In the Territorial Capital of Yellowknife barmen have noticed a substantial reduction in the number of Dogribs seeking drink—and a corresponding increase in the number of Indians claiming to be members of the Chepeweyan and Slavey tribes. 1979M. E. Krauss in Campbell & Mithun Languages of Native Amer. 862 These are all to a significant degree mutually intelligible, with Dogrib being the most divergent (not counting Slavey). 1981Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VI. 79 No convenient name for this language exists, although Slave or Slavey was in 1980 commonly used as a self-designation by most speakers of Mountain, Bearlake, and Hare, as well as of Slavey proper. |