Athabaskan
Northern native tongue
Athabaskan refers to a family of related Indigenous languages spoken across a vast area of North America, from Alaska and western Canada through parts of the American Southwest, where Navajo and Apache are the best-known members.
The term also describes the peoples who speak these languages.
Variant spellings include Athapaskan and Athabascan.
The name derives from Lake Athabasca in Canada.
Southwestern indigenous people
- ApacheSouthwestern indigenous nation
- clansRelated family groups
- kinshipState of being related
- eldersSenior community members
First Nations · tribe · ancestry · heritage · indigenous · sovereignty · reservation · bands
Pursuing large forest cervids
- caribouNorth American arctic deer
- salmon fishingCatching migratory pink fish
- birchbark canoesTree-bark vessels paddled by natives
- snowshoesSurface-spreading winter gear
beadwork · hide tanning · storytelling · oral history · shamanism · ceremonies · dog sleds · traditional knowledge
Related tongues from one source
- tonalRelating to pitch
- NavajoSouthwestern indigenous people
- ApacheSouthwestern indigenous nation
- agglutinationJoining units into wholes
phonology · grammar · dialectology · cognates · lexicon · oral tradition · endangered languages
America's frozen northwest
- YukonNorthwestern Canadian territory
- SubarcticRegion just below polar
- Northwest TerritoriesNorthern Canadian administrative region
- DenaliAlaska's towering peak
boreal forest · taiga · tundra · British Columbia · migration routes · Beringia
Navajo
Southwestern indigenous people
elders · First Nations · tribe · ancestry · heritage · indigenous · sovereignty · reservation · bands · matrilineal
moose hunting
Pursuing large forest cervids
- caribouNorth American arctic deer
- salmon fishingCatching migratory pink fish
- birchbark canoesTree-bark vessels paddled by natives
snowshoes · beadwork · hide tanning · storytelling · oral history · shamanism · ceremonies · dog sleds · traditional knowledge · subsistence
language family
Related tongues from one source
agglutination · phonology · grammar · dialectology · cognates · lexicon · oral tradition · endangered languages
Alaska
America's frozen northwest
- YukonNorthwestern Canadian territory
- SubarcticRegion just below polar
- Northwest TerritoriesNorthern Canadian administrative region
Denali · boreal forest · taiga · tundra · British Columbia · migration routes · Beringia
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
- ApacheCochise, sunrise ceremony, Fort Apache
- Arctic PeoplesInuit, Inuk, Aleut, Eskimo, Aleuts
- Indigenous LanguagesNavajo, Cherokee, Dakota, Lakota, Ojibwe
- Native LanguagesCherokee, Navajo, Maori, Hawaiian, Gaelic
- Northern PeopleInuit, Aleut, Haida, Athabascan, natives
AthabaskanInuit
Arctic indigenous people
Indo-European · Sino-Tibetan · Aleut · Bantu · Semitic