Chip

Informal

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a Chipewyan Indian.

Quotations

1948

There is today probably no tribe of Canadian Indians more primitive than these northern Manitoba "Chips."

1962

Said one young [Indian] maiden . . . "I'm a quarter Cree, a quarter Chip, a quarter French, and a quarter Mounted Police."