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  • noun Plural form of Athabascan.

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Examples

  • And for thousands of years before that, the indigenous Athabascans earned a hardscrabble life on its shores.

    Ice cold in Alaska 2012

  • The unit represents 81 different communities and more than a half dozen cultures, including Eskimos, Tlingits, Haidas, Aleuts and Athabascans.

    Traditional Healers Prepare For Returning Service Personnel Christopher 2007

  • The unit represents 81 different communities and more than a half dozen cultures, including Eskimos, Tlingits, Haidas, Aleuts and Athabascans.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Christopher 2007

  • Historical record shows the Bantu, Han Chinese, Japanese, Athabascans pushed out or killed their rivals from all hunting lands, agricultural lands they wanted.

    "So what did Neanderthal women do all day?" Ann Althouse 2006

  • I just saw a copy of the book which claimed that the Athabascans, Navahos, et al are descended from Tanggut refugees from the Mongol conquest of Hsi-Hsia.

    languagehat.com: LINEAR A IN BULGARIA. 2005

  • It was luminous as the Alaskan valleys when on white arctic nights they are lighted, the Athabascans believe, by the gleaming spears of hunting gods.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • It is not one allied to us, to the humans, the Athabascans, or any other civilized race.

    The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • I do business with Orischians, Athabascans, half a dozen other nonhuman sentient races.

    The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Commerce was prospering, Nuel and humans and Orischians and Athabascans and all the other sentient races who were part of the new alliance were safer and happier than they'd been since the beginning of interstellar contact between sensitives.

    The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • "And not the Orischians, the Athabascans, or any of your other half dozen will have anything to do with us," commented Naras Sharaf, "as they find our shape and appearance as abhorrent as do your own kind."

    The Man Who Used the Universe Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

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