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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

"'Getting the Words Right': Perspectives on Naming and Places in Athapaskan Oral History.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference

Athapaskan clan histories document travel across glaciers from several directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic] Reference

In the Dakota and Algonkin dialects 2 is almost always related to "arms" or "hands," and in the Athapaskan to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Today, as Athapaskan people demonstrate concern with climate change, there is a contemporary validity to these stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic] Reference

Eyak, Athapaskan, and Tlingit place names encapsulate information and local ecology and climate now rendered invisible by English names.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic] Reference

Inti, in his wildest jungle dreams, could not have imagined that Switters would have recognized udrú as the Athapaskan word for 'vagina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

They were linguistically related to the Athapaskan speakers of Alaska and western Canada and worked their way south over a period of centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous Chihuahua: a story of war and assimilation] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic] Reference

This penetration northwards of groups of Athapaskan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers in Canada] Reference

The northern and southern divisions of the Athapaskan group are separated by something like twelve hundred miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers in Canada] Reference

Snow-Covered Vehicles Parked at Chaco Visitor Center discussed a little while ago, there are two basic "snow" terms in the Athapaskan languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Research Blogging - All Topics - English] Reference

The canoes of these Slave and Dog-rib tribes of the Athapaskan (Tinné) group were covered, not with birch bark, but with the bark of the spruce fir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers in Canada] Reference

But although nowadays so much associated with the far north and north-west of America, the Athabaskan group evidently came from a region much farther south, and has been cut in half by other tribal movements, wars, and migrations; for the Athapaskan family also includes the Apaches and the Navaho of the south-western portions of the United States and the adjoining territories of Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers in Canada] Reference

It consisted of perhaps half a dozen major bands and stretched from the mountains of New Mexico to the plains of present-day Kansas and Oklahoma, and clear down to the Nueces River in southern Texas.4 It was the product of another sweeping southward migration—this one by Athapaskan tribes starting in the 1400s, who moved from Canada down the front range of the Rockies, destroying or assimilating other hunter-gatherer tribes.5 While this was most likely not an attempt to kill off the entire tribe, neither was it a simple question of moving the Apaches off their hunting grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference

For Athapaskan people of Canada’s Yukon Territory and southeast Alaska, memories of the Little Ice Age play a significant role in indigenous oral traditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic] Reference

In Canada’s Nunavut Territory, Inuit hunters have noticed the thinning of sea ice and the appearance of birds not usually found in their region; Iñupiat hunters in Alaska report that ice cellars are too warm to keep food frozen; Inuvialuit in the western Canadian Arctic report thunderstorms and lightning (a rare occurrence in the region); Gwich’in Athapaskan people in Alaska have witnessed dramatic changes in weather, vegetation, and animal distribution patterns over the last 50 years or so; Saami reindeer herders in Norway have observed that prevailing winds relied on for navigation have shifted and that snow cannot be relied on for traveling over on trails that people have always used and considered safe (see Chapter 3).    From Wordnik.com.  [Renewable resource use and climate change in the arctic] Reference

Athapaskan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference