DCHP-2
Northerner DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 n.
a resident or native of the North, especially the Far North.
See also: North Country Northman (def. 2)
- 1936 Every Northerner knows that a backward glance over the trail just traversed often helps in keeping direction, especially if the trail ahead lies through unknown country.
- 1963 Northerners figure that one wolf will kill fourteen caribou in a year, and as the number of wolves has gone up, the number of caribou has gone down.
2 n.
a Chipewyan, so named in the Churchill region of Hudson Bay by the English traders to distinguish them from the Crees further south.
See also: Northern Indian (def. 1a)
- 1900 A few Chippewyans or Northerners still dwelt in the more northerly districts of the Territories.
- 1932 The woman interpreter, who seems to have been the dominating figure in the whole affair, announced to the Northerners that a factory would be built at Churchill, and explained how they should catch and prepare the furs for the trade.
3 n.
one of the Haida of the north B.C. Coast.
See also: Northern Indian (def. 2)
- 1927 The Northerner leisurely approached the roaring furnace until the heat must have blistered his flesh. . . .
- 1959 Now the Northerners were reputed to be a fierce and bloodthirsty lot, and here was a situation which demanded craft and cunning if the women and children and old people were not to fall under the butchering onslaught of our enemies.
- 1936 Every Northerner knows that a backward glance over the trail just traversed often helps in keeping direction, especially if the trail ahead lies through unknown country.