CHAPTER VIII.
Fort Chipewyan To Fort McMurray.
Chipewyan, it may be remarked, is not a Dene word.

It is the name which was given by the Crees to that branch of the race when they first came in contact with them, owing to their wearing a peculiar coat, or tunic, which was pointed both before and behind; now disused by them, but still worn by the Esquimaux, and, until recent years, by the Yukon Indians.

Though somewhat similar in sound, it has no connection, it is asserted, with the word Chippeway, or Ojibway.

For all that, the words are perhaps closely akin.

The writer for the accurate use in this narrative of words in the Cree tongue is under obligation to experts.
When preparing his notes to his drama of "Tecumseh" he was indebted to his friend, Mr.Thomas McKay, of Prince Albert, Sask., a master of the Cree language, for the exact origin and derivation of the words Chippeway and Ojibway.