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Chipewyan definition

Chip·ewy·an (c̸hip′ə wī′ən)

noun

  1. a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
  2. the Athabaskan language of this people

Etymology: Cree ochiipwayaaniiw, lit., one who has pointed skins or hides: prob. in allusion to the Chipewyans' style of hunting shirts

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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