Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico.

Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico.

    [Footnote 63:  Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Canada,
    1887.]

TRIBES.

  Auk. 
  Chilcat. 
  Hanega. 
  Hoodsunu. 
  Hunah. 
  Kek. 
  Sitka. 
  Stahkin. 
  Tagish. 
  Taku. 
  Tongas. 
  Yakutat.

Population.—­The following figures are from the census of 1880.[64] The total population of the tribes of this family, exclusive of the Tagish, is 6,437, distributed as follows: 

    Auk 640
    Chilcat 988
    Hanega (including Kouyon
      and Klanak) 587
    Hoodsunu 666
    Hunah 908
    Kek 568
    Sitka 721
    Stahkin 317
    Taku 269
    Tongas 273
    Yakutat 500

    [Footnote 64:  Petroff, Report on the Population, Industries, and
    Resources of Alaska, 1884, p. 33.]

KULANAPAN FAMILY.

  X Kula-napo, Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind.  Tribes, III, 431, 1853 (the
  name of one of the Clear Lake bands).

> Mendocino (?), Latham in Trans.  Philolog.  Soc.  Lond., 77, 1856 (name suggested for Choweshak, Batemdaikai, Kulanapo, Yukai, Khwaklamayu languages).  Latham, Opuscula, 343, 1860.  Latham, El.  Comp.  Phil., 410, 1863 (as above).
> Pomo, Powers in Overland Monthly, IX, 498, Dec., 1873 (general description of habitat and of family).  Powers in Cont.  N.A.  Eth., III, 146, 1877.  Powell, ibid., 491 (vocabularies of Gal-li-no-me-ro, Yo-kai’-a, Ba-tem-da-kaii, Chau-i-shek, Yu-kai, Ku-la-na-po, H’hana, Venaambakaiia, Ka’-bi-na-pek, Chwachamaju).  Gatschet in Mag.  Am.  Hist., 16, 1877 (gives habitat and enumerates tribes of family).  Gatschet in Beach, Ind.  Misc., 436, 1877.  Keane, App.  Stanford’s Comp.  (Cent, and So.  Am.), 476, 1878 (includes Castel Pomos, Ki, Cahto, Choam, Chadela, Matomey Ki, Usal or Calamet, Shebalne Pomos, Gallinomeros, Sanels, Socoas, Lamas, Comachos).
< Pomo, Bancroft, Nat.  Races, III, 566, 1882 (includes Ukiah, Gallinomero, Masallamagoon, Gualala, Matole, Kulanapo, Sanel, Yonios, Choweshak, Batemdakaie, Chocuyem, Olamentke, Kainamare, Chwachamaju.  Of these, Chocuyem and Olamentke are Moquelumnan).

The name applied to this family was first employed by Gibbs in 1853, as above cited.  He states that it is the “name of one of the Clear Lake bands,” adding that “the language is spoken by all the tribes occupying the large valley.”  The distinctness of the language is now generally admitted.

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