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Northerner
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a resident or native of the North, especially the Far North.
Quotations
1936
Every Northerner knows that a backward glance over the trail just traversed often helps in keeping direction, especially if the trail ahead lies through unknown country.
1963
Northerners figure that one wolf will kill fourteen caribou in a year, and as the number of wolves has gone up, the number of caribou has gone down.
2n.
a Chipewyan, so named in the Churchill region of Hudson Bay by the English traders to distinguish them from the Crees further south.
See: Northern Indian(def. 1a)
Quotations
1900
A few Chippewyans or Northerners still dwelt in the more northerly districts of the Territories.
1932
The woman interpreter, who seems to have been the dominating figure in the whole affair, announced to the Northerners that a factory would be built at Churchill, and explained how they should catch and prepare the furs for the trade.
3n.
one of the Haida of the north B.C. Coast.
See: Northern Indian(def. 2)
Quotations
1927
The Northerner leisurely approached the roaring furnace until the heat must have blistered his flesh. . . .
1959
Now the Northerners were reputed to be a fierce and bloodthirsty lot, and here was a situation which demanded craft and cunning if the women and children and old people were not to fall under the butchering onslaught of our enemies.