DCHP-2
Northward Indian Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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)
- 1743 (1949) Among'st the Northward Indians, and Ehuskemay's they have neither of these beast's.
- 1785 (1954) He has even gone and taken one of our best young hunters away with him to Moose clandestinely, and one of our young Women and her young Boy obliged to fly in the night time with the No'ward Indians as he was going to take her likewise.
- 1743 (1949) Among'st the Northward Indians, and Ehuskemay's they have neither of these beast's.