How to Use Athabascan in a Sentence
Athabascan
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The ensuing novel offers prime adventure while deftly weaving aspects of the Koyukon Athabascan culture that forms Sam, Cara and other major characters.
—David James, Anchorage Daily News, 2023-06-04
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Williams, a 77-year-old Alaskan Athabascan Indian who has lived in East Oakland since the early 1970s, finds plenty of reasons to despise the artwork, the most visceral being its nudity.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
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Their mother is Alaska Native of the Ahtna Athabascan people, and the family said McWhorter was named for an aunt who died in 1940 at a boarding school for Indigenous children in Alaska, per CBS.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
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