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Kutchin

American  
[kooch-in] / ˈkʊtʃ ɪn /

noun

plural

Kutchins,

plural

Kutchin

  1. a member of a group of North American Indians who live in the region of the lower Mackenzie River in northwestern Canada and the Yukon and Porcupine rivers of northeastern Alaska.

  2. the Athabascan language of the Kutchin.

Etymology

Origin of Kutchin

First recorded in 1930–35; from Kutchin gwičin “people of, dwellers at (the place specified),” occurring as the final element in the names of local bands, and misunderstood as a designation for all Kutchin

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