Chipewyan

American  

[chip-uh-wahy-uhn] / ˌtʃɪp əˈwaɪ ən /

noun

plural

Chipewyans,

plural

Chipewyan

1. a member of a First Nations tribe that inhabits northwestern Canada between Hudson Bay and the Rocky Mountains.

2. the Athabascan language spoken by the Chipewyan.

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Example Sentences

In June, a fire got close to the subarctic, mostly indigenous hamlet of Fort Chipewyan, in northern Alberta.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2023

Gahcho Kué, which means “place of the big rabbits” in the Dënësu¸łinë language of the region’s native Dené or Chipewyan people, is an expansive open pit mine ringed by sky-blue lakes.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 3, 2020

“They shouldn’t have picked me,” Mr. Adam said in a phone interview from his home in Fort Chipewyan on remote Lake Athabasca.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2020

And we’ve heard nothing about the Lubicon, Athabasca Chipewyan and Beaver Lake Cree downstream of the Alberta mines, who first raised the cry of concern about Canada’s future with the tar sands.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2018

Mr. C. Harding, the officer in charge of Fort Resolution, the Hudson Bay Company's post on Great Slave Lake, has sent me the following Chipewyan Indian names of lakes, &c., in this region:— English.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Tyrrell, J. B.