Athabascan

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The Athabascan or Athapascan or Athapaskan or Athabaskan people are a group of Native Americans, also known as the Athabasca Indians or Athabaskes, who speak languages in the Athabascan or Na-Dene language family. Tribes that belong to the Athapascan group include the Apache, Chipewyan (also called Dene), Hupa, Navaho, Jicarilla, Kiowa, Kuchin, Lipan, Mescalero, Sarsi, and Taculli.

Anthropologists have identified a large group of languages within the Na-Dene language family spoken by peoples throughout the interior of Alaska and the interior of northwestern Canada, in northern California and southern Oregon, and in the American Southwest.

• Canada: Chipewyan, Sarsi, Slavey
• Alaska: Gwichen, Tlingit, Tanacross, Upper Tanaina, Kaska
• Northern California: Hupa-Chilula, Mattole-Bear River, and Eel River
• Arizona, New Mexico, Texas: Navajo, Apache, Jicarilla

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Athabascan" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabascan October 15, 2003