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Naskapi

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Nas·ka·pi  (nsk-p)
n. pl. Naskapi or Nas·ka·pis
1.
a. A Native American people inhabiting northern Quebec and Labrador.
b. A member of this people.
2. The variety of Montagnais spoken by the Naskapi.

[French, of Montagnais origin.]

Naskapi [nəˈskæpɪ]
n
(Social Science / Peoples) a member of an Innu people living in Quebec
[from Cree]


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Van Stone's study of material culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi [1985].
His colleague and follower Marie-Louise von Franz was very aware of this important relationship: Thus the major obligation of an individual Naskapi is to follow the instructions given by his dreams, and then to give permanent form to their contents in art.
Algonquin speaking people include the Cree, the Ojibwa or Chippewa, the Ottawa, the Montagnais, the Naskapi and others.
 
 
 
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