DCHP-1 Online
star(ch)igan [origin uncertain; prob. < Algonk.] Esp. Lab. 
n. a kind of Indian dwelling.
- 1920 Light snow has fallen during the night, and every "starigan," every patch of "tuckamore" is "decked in sparkling raiment white."
- 1923 (1924) . . . the thing that had looked so like a lodge-pole starchigan was nothing more than a tumble of blow-downs carried over the cliff-edge in a snow-slide.
- 1920 Light snow has fallen during the night, and every "starigan," every patch of "tuckamore" is "decked in sparkling raiment white."