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Mountaineer [so called because they lived in the highlands]

• 1 n. Hist. one of an Algonkian-speaking people of eastern Quebec and Labrador, the Naskapi.

  • The closely related Montagnais and Mountaineers were so named in colonial times by the French and the English respectively; the former people retain this name still; the latter are now generally known as Naskapi.

• 2a n. Obs. one of a group of woods Crees living to the northwest of Lake Superior.

• 2b n. one of several Athapaskan-speaking peoples in the Northwest, as the Kasha, Sekani, Nahani, and, earlier, the western Chipewyans.