More generally, Athabaskan is the name of a language group, also called Na-Dene or Apachean, that includes languages associated with Native American and First Nation people that today live in Alaska, northwest Canada, and coastal Oregon and California.
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Erlandson, Jon M., Mark A. Tveskov, and Madonna L. Moss 1997 Return to Chetlessenten: The antiquity and architecture of an Athapaskan village on the southern Northwest coast. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 19(2):226-240.
Huscher, Harold A. 1963 Southern Athapaskan Names in Early Spanish Records. Plains Anthropologist 8(21):210.
Meyer, David and Henry T. Epp 1991 Errata: North-South Interaction in the Late Prehistory of Central Saskatchewan. Plains Anthropologist 36(135):186.
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Perry, Richard J. 1980 The Apachean Transition from the Subarctic to the Southwest. Plains Anthropologist 25(90):279-296.
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Watson, Graham and Jean-Guy A. Goulet 1992 Gold in; gold out: The objectification of Dene Tha accounts of dreams and visions. Journal of Anthropological Research 48(3):215-230.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
