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Show 62 INDIAN LINGUISTIC FAMILIES. D. Kichai. E. Caddo ( Ka'- do). Population.- The present number of the Caddoan stock is 2,259, of whom 447 are on the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, and the rest in the Indian Territory, some on the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Reservation, the others on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Reservation. Below is given the population of the tribes officially recognized, compiled chiefly from the Indian Report for 1889: Arikara 448 Pawnee 824 Wichita 176 Towakarehu 145 Waco 64 385 Kichai 63 Caddo 539 Total 2,259 CHIMAKUAN FAMILY. = Chimakum, Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 431,1855 ( family doubtful). = Chemakum, Eells in Am. Antiquarian, 52, Oct., 1880 ( considers language different from any of its neighbors). < Puget Sound Group, Keane, App. Stanford's Comp. ( Gent, and So. Am.), 474, 1878 ( Chinakum included in this group). < Nootka, Bancroft, Native Races, m, 564, 1883 ( contains Ghimakum). Derivation unknown. Concerning this language Gibbs, as above cited, states as follows: The language of the Chimakum " differs materially from either that of the Clallams or the Nisqually, and is not understood by any of their neighbors. In fact, they seem to have maintained it a State secret. To what family it will ultimately be referred, cannot now be decided." Eells also asserts the distinctness of this language from any of its neighbors. Neither of the above authors assigned the language family rank, and accordingly Mr. Gatschet, who has made a comparison of vocabularies and finds the language to be quite distinct from any other, gives it the above name. The Chimakum are said to have been formerly one of the largest and most powerful tribes of Puget Sound. Their warlike habits early tended to diminish their numbers, and when visited by Gibbs in 1854 they counted only about seventy individuals. This small remnant occupied some fifteen small lodges on Port Townsend Bay. According to Gibbs " their territory seems to have embraced the shore from Port Townsend to Port Ludlow."' In 1884 there were, according to 1 Dr. Boas was informed in 1889, by a surviving Chimakum woman and several Clallam, that the tribe was confined to the peninsula between Hood's Canal and Port Townsend. |
