The Athabasca Indians are one of the few yet existing indian people of North America. They formerly were very strong people, splitted into numerous tribes, groups, clans and families. In search of food they roamed through the north-american continent from the Arctic coast in the north to northern Mexico in the south, from the Pacific in the west to Hudson Bay in the east and from the springs of the Rio Colorado to the mouth of the Rio Grande. Their language, the Athapascan, is considered to be the most widely distributed in North America. In the early years of the 20th century it got possible to assign 51 tribes and 11 subgroups to this linguistic family, as there are such wellknown like the Navaho, Apache, Kiowa, Chipewyan, Yellowknife and Beaver-Indians. The Chipewyan tribe is regarded to be the real Athabasca. The name means generally "grass and reeds here and there". Nowadays the remainders of this big family dwell along the West coast of North America, in the states of Washington (USA) and British Columbia (Canada). In the canadian state of Alberta you still find in the names of rivers (Athabascan River), Lakes (Lake Athabasca) and places (Athabascaville) some references to these indians.

Natural people have some very magic attraction to me and the North American Indian was always on my greatest interest. What, of course, was reasonabler - as the choice finding a name for our new founded cattery has to been made - as to introduce the knowledge of the one hobby into the practice of the second. Nature to nature - human natural people are the force behind a feline natural breed. And so it turns out that for up to now twenty years little feline indians of the tribe of Athabaske due to her presence bring joy and love in many a wigwam of the white man (or white squaw).

One little, two little, three little Indians, four little, five....

Gitchi-Manidoo (Advice for the Young)

"Maka owancaya..." (- I now command....)

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