Editing Chipewyan (section)

== Terminology ==
[[File:Kids by canoe - Dene - La Loche Sask 1943.jpg|thumb|left|Denesuline children by canoe in [[La Loche]]]]
The term ''Chipewyan'' ({{lang|cr-Cans|ᒌᐯᐘᔮᐣ}}) is an [[Endonym and exonym|exonym]] from the [[Cree language]] meaning 'pointed hides', referring to the design of their parkas.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 September 2021 |title=Chipewyan |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chipewyan}}</ref>

The French-speaking missionaries to the northwest of the [[Red River Colony]] referred to the Chipewyan people as Montagnais in their documents written in French.<ref>{{cite book |last=Petitot |first=Émile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph |title=Dictionnaire de la langue Dènè-Dindjié, dialectes montagnais ou chippewayan, peaux de lièvre et loucheux, renfermant en outre un grand nombre de termes propres à sept autres dialectes de la même langue; précédé d'une monographie des Dènè-Dindjié, d'une grammaire et de tableaux synoptiques des conjugaisons (see preface) |location=Paris |publisher=E. Leroux |url=http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/789.html |date=1876 |access-date=5 December 2014 }}</ref> Montagnais simply means 'mountain people' or 'highlanders' in French and has been applied to many unrelated nations across North America over time. For example, the [[Innu|Neenolino Innu]] of northern Quebec are also called {{lang|fr|Montagnais}}.