Athabascan
Athabascan or Athapascan or Athapaskan or Athabaskan 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 Dena'ina, Apache, Chipewyan (also called Dene), 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, the American West and Texas.
- Canada: Na-Dene, Athapaskan, Tahltan, Kaska, Tagish, Beaver, Sekani, Carrier, Chilcotin, Babine, Kutchin, Gwich'in, Chipewyan, Sarsi aka Sarcee, Hare, Haida, Slavey, Tutchone, Tsetsaut
- Alaska: Na-Dene, Haida, Tlingit, Eyak, Athapaskan, Ingalik, Degexit'an, Koyukon, Holikachuk, Tanaina-Ahtna, Tanaina, Ahtena, Upper-Tanaina, Lower-Tanaina, Upper Kuskokwim, Tanacross
- Northern California: Hupa-Chilula, Mattole-Bear River, Wailaki, Kato and Eel River
- Oregon: Chetco, Coquille, Galice, Tolowa, Tututni
- United States: Apachean, Kiowa, Navajo, Apache, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero-Chiricahua