DCHP-3

Northward Indian

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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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

1743
Among'st the Northward Indians, and Ehuskemay's they have neither of these beast's.
1785
He has even gone and taken one of our best young hunters away with him to Moose clandestinely, and one of our young Women and her young Boy obliged to fly in the night time with the No'ward Indians as he was going to take her likewise.