Chip·e·wy·an
variants:
or Chippewaian
or Chippewyan \
ˌchipəˈwīən
\
plural Chipewyan or Chipewyans or Chippewaian or Chippewaians or Chippewyan or Chippewyans
Definition of Chipewyan
1a
: an Athapaskan people closely related to the Slave and Yellowknife people and living north of the Churchill river between the Great Slave lake and the Slave and Athabaska rivers on the west and Hudson Bay on the east
b
: a member of such people
2
: the language of the Chipewyan people
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