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Caribou Eater

• 1a a member of a sub-tribe of the Chipewyan Indians.

  See also: Deer Eater  

  • 1807  [The only information I can get concerning these Natives is that they inhabit these rocks, live upon carribou and goat flesh and make war upon one another.]
  • 1821  (1938)  The Carribeau Eaters are those who confine themselves to their own barren lands and are so called from the circumstance of their devoting the whole of their attention to hunting the Carribeau or Reindeer, which are very numerous.
  • 1892  A large band of Indians, known as the Caribou-Eaters, whose hunting ground lies between the two big lakes, get their supplies from here.
  • 1956  The first part of it, he points out, tells of life among the Caribou Eaters at the east end of Lake Athabasca, where, he says, "I set my hand to the oar, whip, or axe, or to the handle of a frying pan more often than I did to a pen.

• 1b the Athapaskan dialect spoken by the Caribou Eaters.

  • 1894  As they spoke no English, and we no Caribou Eater, we naturally did not converse.

• 2 a group of Eskimos living inland in the District of Keewatin, west of Hudson Bay.

  See also: Caribou Eskimo  

  • 1962  . . . relics of little traditional camps could be seen, made by the inland Eskimo--the Caribou-eaters--at the deer-crossings. . . .