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Show 54 INDIAN LINGUISTIC FAMILIES. south"- a statement of too uncertain character to be depended upon; the Athapascan tribes now on the Grande Ronde and Siletz Reservations, Oregon, 1 whose villages on and near the coast extended from Coquille River southward to the California line, including, among others, the Upper Coquille, Sixes, Euchre, Creek, Joshua, Tutu tfinnS, and other " Rogue River" or " Tou- touten bands," Chasta Costa, Galice Creek, Naltunne tunnC and Chetco villages;* the Athapascan villages formerly on Smith River and tributaries, California;' those villages extending southward from Smith River along the California coast to the mouth of Klamath River; 4 the Hup& villages or " clans" formerly on Lower Trinity River, California; 6 the Kenesti or Wailakki ( 2), located as follows: " They live along the western slope of the Shasta Mountains, from North Eel River, above Round Valley, to Hay Fork; along Eel and Mad Rivers, extending down the latter about to Low Gap; also on Dobbins and Larrabie Creeks;" 6 and Saiaz, who " formerly occupied the tongue of land jutting down between Eel River and Van Dusen's Fork." 7 Southern group.- Includes the Navajo, Apache, and Lipan. Engineer Jos6 Cortez, one of the earliest authorities on these tribes, writing in 1799, defines the boundaries of the Lipan and Apache as extending north and south from 29° N. to 36° N., and east and west from 99° W. to 114° W.; in other words from central Texas nearly to the Colorado River in Arizona, where they met tribes of the Yuman stock. The Lipan occupied the eastern part of the above territory, extending in Texas from the Comanche country ( about Red River) south to the Rio Grande.* More recently both Lipan and Apache have gradually moved southward into Mexico where they extend as far as Durango. 9 The Navajo, since first known to history, have occupied the country on and south of the San Juan River in northern New Mexico and Arizona and extending into Colorado and Utah. They were surrounded on all sides by the cognate Apache except upon the north, where they meet Shoshonean tribes. 1 Gatechet and Dorsey, MS., 1888-' 84. 8 Dorsey, MS., map, 1884, B. E. ' Hamilton, MS., Haynarger Vocab., B. E.; Powers, Contr. N. A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 8, p. 65. 4 Dorsey, MS., map, 1884, B. E. ' Powers, Contr. N. A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 8, pp. 72,78. • Powers, Contr. N. A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 8, p. 114. 7 Powers, Contr. N. A. Ethn., 1877, vol. 8, p. 122. 8Cortez in Pac. R. R. Rep., 1856, vol. 3, pt. 8, pp. 118,119. • Bartlett, Pers. Narr., 1854; Orozco y Berra, Geog., 1864. |
