> Hailtsa, Latham in Trans.  Philolog.  Soc.  Lond., 72, 1856.  Buschmann, Neu-Mexico, 322, 1858.  Latham, Opuscula, 339, 1860.  Latham, El.  Comp.  Phil., 401, 1862 (includes coast dialects between Hawkesbury Island, Broughton’s Archipelago, and northern part of Vancouver Island).

  > Ha-eelb-zuk, Schoolcraft, Ind.  Tribes, V, 487, 1855.  Kane, Wand. of
  an Artist, app., 1859 (or Ballabola; a census of N.W. tribes
  classified by language).

  > Ha-ilt’-z[vu]kh, Dall, after Gibbs, in Cont.  N.A.  Eth., I, 144, 1877
  (vocabularies of Bel-bella of Milbank Sound and of Kwaki[-u]tl’).

  < Nass, Gallatin in Trans.  Am.  Eth.  Soc., II, pt 1, c, 1848.

  < Naass, Gallatin in Trans.  Am.  Eth.  Soc., II, pt. 1, 77, 1848
  (includes Hailstla, Haceltzuk, Billechola, Chimeysan).  Gallatin in
  Schoolcraft, Ind.  Tribes, III, 402, 1853 (includes Huitsla).

  X Nass, Bancroft, Nat.  Races, III, 564, 606, 1882 (includes Hailtza of
  present family).

  > Aht, Sproat, Savage Life, app., 312, 1868 (name suggested for family
  instead of Nootka-Columbian).

  > Aht, Tolmie and Dawson, Comp.  Vocabs., 50, 1884 (vocab. of
  Kaiookw[-a]ht).

  X Puget Sound Group, Keane, App.  Stanford’s Comp. (Cent. and So.  Am.),
  460, 474, 1878.

  X Hydahs, Keane, App.  Stanford’s Comp. (Cent. and So.  Am.), 473, 1878
  (includes Hailtzas of the present family).

  > Kwakiool, Tolmie and Dawson, Comp.  Vocabs., 27-48, 1884 (vocabs. of
  Haishilla, Hailtzuk, Kwiha, Likwiltoh, Septs; also map showing family
  domain).

  > Kw[-a]’ki[-u][t_][l_] [Kwa’kiutl], Boas in Petermann’s Mitteilungen,
  130, 1887 (general account of family with list of tribes).

Derivation:  Waukash, waukash, is the Nootka word “good” “good.”  When heard by Cook at Friendly Cove, Nootka Sound, it was supposed to be the name of the tribe.

Until recently the languages spoken by the Aht of the west coast of Vancouver Island and the Makah of Cape Flattery, congeneric tribes, and the Haeltzuk and Kwakiutl peoples of the east coast of Vancouver Island and the opposite mainland of British Columbia, have been regarded as representing two distinct families.  Recently Dr. Boas has made an extended study of these languages, has collected excellent vocabularies of the supposed families, and as a result of his study it is now possible to unite them on the basis of radical affinity.  The main body of the vocabularies of the two languages is remarkably distinct, though a considerable number of important words are shown to be common to the two.

Dr. Boas, however, points out that in both languages suffixes only are used in forming words, and a long list of these shows remarkable similarity.