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.

Population.—­So far as known the surviving Indians of this family are all at the Grande Ronde Agency, Oregon.

The following is a census for 1890: 

Atfalati 28
Calapooya 22
Lakmiut 29
Mary’s River 28
Santiam 27
Yamil 30
Yonkalla 7
—–­
Total 171

KARANKAWAN FAMILY.

= Karankawa, Gatschet in Globus, XLIX, No. 8, 123, 1886 (vocabulary
of 25 terms; distinguished as a family provisionally).  Gatschet in
Science, 414, April 9, 1887.

The Karankawa formerly dwelt upon the Texan coast, according to Sibley, upon an island or peninsula in the Bay of St. Bernard (Matagorda Bay).  In 1804 this author, upon hearsay evidence, stated their number to be 500 men.[56] In several places in the paper cited it is explicitly stated that the Karankawa spoke the Attakapa language; the Attakapa was a coast tribe living to the east of them.  In 1884 Mr. Gatschet found a Tonkawe at Fort Griffin, Texas, who claimed to have formerly lived among the Karankawa.  From him a vocabulary of twenty-five terms was obtained, which was all of the language he remembered.

    [Footnote 56:  Am.  State Papers, 1832, vol. 4, p. 722.]

The vocabulary is unsatisfactory, not only because of its meagerness, but because most of the terms are unimportant for comparison.  Nevertheless, such as it is, it represents all of the language that is extant.  Judged by this vocabulary the language seems to be distinct not only from the Attakapa but from all others.  Unsatisfactory as the linguistic evidence is, it appears to be safer to class the language provisionally as a distinct family upon the strength of it than to accept Sibley’s statement of its identity with Attakapa, especially as we know nothing of the extent of his information or whether indeed his statement was based upon a personal knowledge of the language.

A careful search has been made with the hope of finding a few survivors of this family, but thus far not a single descendant of the tribe has been discovered and it is probable that not one is now living.

KERESAN FAMILY.

  > Keres, Turner in Pac.  R. R. Rep., III, pt. 3, 55, 86-90, 1856
  (includes Kiwomi, Cochitemi, Acoma).

= Kera, Powell in Rocky Mt.  Presbyterian, Nov., 1878 (includes San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Cochiti, Santa Ana, Cia, Acoma, Laguna, Povate, Hasatch, Mogino).  Gratschet in U.S.  Geog.  Surv.  W. 100th M., VII, 417, 1879.  Gatschet in Mag.  Am.  Hist. 259, 1883.

  = Keran, Powell in Am.  Nat., 604, Aug., 1880 (enumerates pueblos and
  gives linguistic literature).

  = Queres, Keane, App.  Stanford’s Comp. (Cent. and So.  Ana.), 479,
  1878.

  = Chu-cha-cas, Lane in Schoolcraft, Ind.  Tribes, V, 689, 1855
  (includes Laguna, Acoma, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, Santa Ana,
  Cochite, Sille).

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