Gwich'in
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Noun
Gwich'in pl (plural only)
- An ethnic group native to the northern Yukon Territory and adjacent parts of Alaska.
- Synonym: (dated) Loucheux
- 2009, Alan D. McMillan, Eldon Yellowhorn, First Peoples In Canada, →ISBN, page 246:
- Climate varies from among the harshest in the Subarctic in the northern territory of the Gwich'in to more benign among the Carrier in the south.
- 2010, Richard J. Preston, A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature: Essays in Honour of Richard Slobodin, →ISBN:
- It is not a Gwich'in history, nor is it a self-conscious effort to use Gwich'in structures of knowledge.
- 2013, James Minahan, Ethnic Groups of the Americas: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 162:
- This history of the Gwich'in people is mostly unknown due to the lack of a written language.
Proper noun
Gwich'in
- The Athabaskan language of this people.