Athabascan or
Athapascan or
Athapaskan is the name of a
Native American people, also known as the
Athabasca Indians or
Athabaskes, and of their language family. Tribes that belong to the Athapascan group include the
Apache,
Chipewyan[?] (who are often considered the "true" Athabascas),
Hupa[?],
Navaho,
Jicarilla[?],
Kiowa[?],
Kuchin[?],
Lipan[?],
Mescalero[?],
Sarsi[?], and
Taculli[?].
Anthropologists have identified a large group of languages within the Na-Dene language family spoken by peoples throughout the interior of Alaska and the interior of northwestern Canada, in northern California and southern Oregon, and in the American Southwest[?].