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Chipewyan (chĭp'əwī`ən), Native North Americans of the Athabascan Athabascan , Athapascan, or Athapaskan , group of related Native American languages forming a branch of the Nadene linguistic family or stock. In the preconquest period, Athabascan was a large and extensive group of tongues.
..... Click the link for more information. branch of the Nadene linguistic stock (see also Native American languages Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Formerly the largest of the Athabascan groups, scattered Chipewyan bands ranged W Canada between Great Slave Lake and the Churchill River. They were nomadic hunters and gatherers who lived in small groups of extended families, following the seasonal migration of caribou herds. The Chipewyan were in rivalry with the Woodland Cree; eventually their numbers were severely reduced by smallpox. They are not to be confused with the Chippewa or Ojibwa. In 1991 close to 10,000 Chipewyan were living in Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories.

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Poitras, former chief of the Mikisew Cree, was joined by Lionel Lepine, of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation; Clayton Thomas-Muller, of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Manitoba); and Heather Hilton-Lightening, of the Pasqua First Nation (Saskatchewan); in England from Aug.

First nations representatives bring plight of Fort Chip to U.K by Narine, Shari / Alberta Sweetgrass

The Athabasca Chipewyan complain the report deflects attention away from the very real concerns they have for the health of their people who suffer high incidences of cancer.

First Nations are a threat by Windspeaker

Speaking to the Record, Park expressed particular concern for the people of Fort Chipewyan, a small town 300 km north of Fort McMurray.

Park prays for tar sands: he tells General Assembly, 'it's our ... by Purvis, Connie / Presbyterian Record

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