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Skittagetan en · NOUN

Etymology

From Skittaget + -an.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of Haida (“people”).
    • The Haydas (Skittagetans) were and are the flower of the native races. 1897, A. C. Harris, Alaska and the Klondike gold fields, page 488:

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Synonyms

Haida

Skittagetan en · PROPN

Etymology

From Skittaget + -an.

Meanings

  1. Synonym of Haida (“language”).
    • In the Haida language, of the Skittagetan family, translations of three of the Gospels and of the Acts, by Charles Harrison and J. H. Keen, were printed in 1891-97. 1912, Frederick Webb Hodge, editor, Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, page 145:

Synonyms

Haida