DCHP-3

Caribou eater

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person whose principal food is caribou, specifically an Indian or Eskimo.

Quotations

1911
Of these the Hay River and Liard Indians, numbering about 500, can scarcely be considered Caribou-Eaters, so that the Indian population feeding on Caribou to-day is about 3,000, less than half what it was 100 years ago.