Chippewyan in charge of the lunatic on December 17, 1904, with the interpreter and two dog-trains. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Now, I'm hearing similar stories for Plains Cree, Lakhota, Mikmaq and even for languages like Chippewyan. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THE FUTURE OF IRISH.] Reference
The Lubicon Cree should have been included in Treaty 8, between the federal government and the Cree, Beaver and Chippewyan peoples of northern Alberta and adjacent parts of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories, a treaty negotiated in 1899 in order to open the North for gold prospecting. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference
But they dried their socks and smoked their evening pipes with much the same gusto as on their former visit, though one or two bold spirits speculated on desertion and the possibility of crossing the unexplored Rockies to the east, and thence, by the Mackenzie Valley, of gaining their old stamping-grounds in the Chippewyan Country. From Wordnik.com. [An Odyssey of the North] Reference
Chippewyan takes up the story of life where the Cree left off. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Snare] Reference
Among the early explorers it was known as the range of Chippewyan. From Wordnik.com. [Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference
Thou, Gowhee, hast a wife and children and a deer-skin lodge in the Chippewyan. From Wordnik.com. [The Wisdom of the Trail] Reference
It was almost a yard in length, with the curious Chippewyan loop at one end and the double-knot at the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Snare] Reference
Issued provisions to the family of Kussepogoo, a Chippewyan woman from Athabasca, recently settled at St. Mary's. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
Rockies to the east, and thence, by the Mackenzie Valley, of gaining their old stamping grounds in the Chippewyan country. From Wordnik.com. [The Son of the Wolf] Reference
Rockies to the east, and thence, by the Mackenzie Valley, of gaining their old stamping-grounds in the Chippewyan Country. From Wordnik.com. [An Odyssey of the North] Reference
Chippewyan chain of mountains, and the sandy and volcanic plains which extend on either side, are represented as incapable of cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [The adventures of Captain Bonneville] Reference
The great Chippewyan chain of mountains, and the sandy and volcanic plains which extend on either side, are represented as incapable of cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
It is made up of different tribes and languages-Cree, Beaver, Slavi, Chippewyan-and they were scattered about in different groups in that great north land of forests, lakes, mountains, and prairies. From Wordnik.com. [The Peace River Country, Past, Present and Future] Reference
Sometimes he would pace the little log barracks of Fort Chippewyan from sunset to day dawn, trying to work out a way to explore those rivers; or, sitting before the huge hearth place, he would dream and dream till, as he wrote his cousin Roderick. From Wordnik.com. [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference
It was not Cree or Chippewyan or Eskimo. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Snare] Reference
He struck Chippewyan at a fortunate time. From Wordnik.com. [Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail] Reference
Chippewyan, near the mouth of the Slave River. From Wordnik.com. [Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail] Reference
On the 24th August he re-entered Fort Chippewyan. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
(“a branch of the great Chippewyan, or Athapascan, stock;” includes. 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
A strain of Chippewyan. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Snare] Reference
Chippewyan, population 55. 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
Chippewyan, Athabasca. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Chippewyan, Fort, 325, 402. From Wordnik.com. [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference
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