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Loucheux, n. and a.|luʃø|
[Canad. Fr., f. F. louche squint-eyed (see quot. 1828).]
A. n.
a. A North American Indian people inhabiting the Yukon and Mackenzie River areas.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this people or their language.
1828J. Franklin Narr. Second Expedition Polar Sea i. 23 The fact is, that Loucheux, or Squinter, was intended to convey the sense of the Indian name..Deguthée Dennee, which means, ‘the people who avoid the arrows of their enemies, by keeping a look out on both sides’. Ibid., The tribe of Indians whom Mackenzie calls the Quarrellers, but whom the traders throughout the fur country name the Loucheux. Ibid. 29 The Red River contributes its waters to the Mackenzie..and..is remarkable as being the boundary between the lands claimed by the Loucheux Indians and those of the Esquimaux. 1867Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1866 311 The physical characteristics of the Loucheux nation are..the same as those of the other aborigines of North America. Ibid., The Loucheux language is a dialect of the Chepewyan. Ibid., The Loucheux, though sunk in barbarism, are rather more intelligent than the other tribes. Ibid., The Loucheux proper is spoken by the Indians of Peel's river. 1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. iii. 127 The Loucheux and Hare-skin Indians..are forbidden by custom to eat the sinew of the legs of animals. 1921E. Sapir Lang. iv. 71 Such languages as Navaho,..Chipewyan, Loucheux. 1971Times 22 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. v/1 In the north of the Yukon close by the Alaska border, a small band of Loucheux Indians have stood up to be counted: they do not want oil and gas exploration in their territory. Ibid., The caribou move..through these flats, and the Loucheux take about 1,000 of them a year for food. |