PRINCIPAL TRIBES.

Following is a list of the Chimmesyan tribes, according to Boas:[32]

  A. Nasqa’: 
    Nasqa’. 
    Gyitksa’n.

  B. Tsimshian proper: 
    Ts’emsia’n. 
    Gyits’umrae’lon. 
    Gyits’ala’ser. 
    Gyitq[-a]’tla. 
    Gyitg.[-a]’ata. 
    Gyidesdzo’.

    [Footnote 32:  B.A.A.S.  Fifth Rep. of Committee on NW.  Tribes of
    Canada.  Newcastle-upon-Tyne meeting, 1889, pp. 8-9.]

Population.—­The Canadian Indian Report for 1888 records a total for all the tribes of this family of 5,000.  In the fall of 1887 about 1,000 of these Indians, in charge of Mr. William Duncan, removed to Annette Island, about 60 miles north of the southern boundary of Alaska, near Port Chester, where they have founded a new settlement called New Metlakahtla.  Here houses have been erected, day and industrial schools established, and the Indians are understood to be making remarkable progress in civilization.

CHINOOKAN FAMILY.

  > Chinooks, Gallatin in Trans. and Coll.  Am.  Antiq.  Soc., II, 134,
  306, 1836 (a single tribe at mouth of Columbia).

  = Chinooks, Hale in U.S.  Expl.  Expd., VI, 198, 1846.  Gallatin, after
  Hale, in Trans.  Am.  Eth.  Soc., II, pt. 1, 15, 1848 (or Tsinuk).

  = Tshinuk, Hale in U.S.  Expl.  Expd., VI, 562, 569, 1846 (contains
  Watlala or Upper Chinook, including Watlala, Nihaloitih, or Echeloots;
  and Tshinuk, including Tshinuk, Tlatsap, Wakaikam).

  = Tsinuk, Gallatin, after Hale, in Trans.  Am.  Eth.  Soc., II, pt. 1,
  15, 1848.  Berghaus (1851), Physik.  Atlas, map 17, 1852.

  > Cheenook, Latham in Jour.  Eth.  Soc.  Lond., I, 236, 1848.  Latham,
  Opuscula, 253, 1860.

> Chinuk, Latham, Nat.  Hist.  Man, 317, 1850 (same as Tshinuk; includes Chinuks proper, Klatsops, Kathlamut, WakAiikam, Watlala, Nihaloitih).  Latham in Trans.  Philolog.  Soc.  Lond., 73, 1856 (mere mention of family name).  Latham, Opuscula, 340, 1860.  Buschmann.  Spuren der aztek.  Sprache, 616-619, 1859.

= Tschinuk, Berghaus (1851), Physik.  Atlas, map 17, 1852.  Latham in Trans.  Philolog.  Soc.  Lond., 73, 1856 (mere mention of family name).  Latham, Opuscula, 340, 1860.  Latham, El.  Comp.  Phil., 402, 1862 (cites a short vocabulary of Watlala).

  = Tshinook, Gallatin in Schoolcraft, Ind.  Tribes, III, 402, 1853
  (Chinooks, Clatsops, and Watlala).  Tolmie and Dawson, Comp.  Vocabs. 
  Brit.  Col., 51, 61, 1884.

  > Tshinuk, Buschmann, Spuren der aztek.  Sprache, 616, 1859 (same as
  his Chinuk).

  = T’sin[-u]k, Dall, after Gibbs, in Cont.  N.A.  Eth., 1, 241, 1877
  (mere mention of family).

  = Chinook, Gatschet in Mag.  Am.  Hist., 167, 1877 (names and gives
  habitats of tribes).  Gatschet in Beach, Ind.  Misc., 442, 1877.