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What (who) is Chipewyan - definition
ETHNIC GROUP
Denesuline; Dënesųłiné; Denésoliné; Dene Soline; Dené Soliné; Denesoline; Chipewyan people; Denesųłiné
![Denesuline children by canoe in [[La Loche]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kids by canoe - Dene - La Loche Sask 1943.jpg?width=200 "Denesuline children by canoe in [[La Loche]]")
![Sign in Denesuline at [[La Loche Airport]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Signs La Loche Airport.jpg?width=200 "Sign in Denesuline at [[La Loche Airport]]")
Chipewyan
[?t??p?'w???n]
¦ noun (plural same or Chipewyans)
1. a member of a Dene people of NW Canada. Compare with Chippewa.
2. the Athabaskan language of the Chipewyan.
Origin
from Cree, lit. '(wearing) pointed-skin (garments)'.
Chipewyan Prairie First Nation
FIRST NATION IN ALBERTA, CANADA
Chipewyan Prairie
The Chipewyan Prairie First Nation () is a First Nations band government located in northeast Alberta south of Fort McMurray.
St Paul's Pro-Cathedral (Fort Chipewyan)
St. Andrew's Cathedral was the Anglican Pro-cathedral of the former Canadian Diocese of Mackenzie River: it was in Fort Chipewyan but reverted to parish church status in 1933 when the diocese was abolished:"Many Foundations: Historic Churches of Alberta" Oakwell,M p110: Ottawa, Canada Council for the Arts, 1946 it is the oldest Anglican church in Alberta.
Wikipedia
Chipewyan
The Chipewyan ( chip-ə-WHY-ən, also called Denésoliné or Dënesųłı̨né or Dënë Sųłınë́, meaning "the original/real people") are a Dene Indigenous Canadian people of the Athabaskan language family, whose ancestors are identified with the Taltheilei Shale archaeological tradition. They are part of the Northern Athabascan group of peoples, and come from what is now Western Canada.
Examples of use of Chipewyan
1. Native residents of Fort Chipewyan, a village of 1,200 on the shores of Lake Athabasca, have experienced abnormally high rates of rare cancers.
2. As the burly Chipewyan native tramps through 18–inch snowdrifts, through the tamarack and black spruce stands 30 miles north of Yellowknife, he is looking for his family‘s sustenance.
3. And you don‘t have to be 10 years old and thinking "snow fort." Quinzees – hollowed–out mounds of snow, igloos without the blocks – were once widely used by Chipewyan hunters who had strayed far from their winter lodges in subarctic Canada.