Athabascan-speaking people of the Southwest Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma
2. a Parisian gangster

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ATHABASCAN (noun)
1. a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska
2. a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
SOUTHWEST (noun)
1. the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado
2. the compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees
SOUTHWEST (adverb)
1. to, toward, or in the southwest
SOUTHWEST (adjective)
1. situated in or oriented toward the southwest
2. coming from the southwest

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