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Show 102 INDIAN LINGUISTIC FAMILIES. The group established by Latham under the name Salinas is a heterogeneous one, containing representatives of no fewer than four distinct families. Gioloco, which he states " may possibly belong to this group, notwithstanding its reference to the Mission of San Francisco," really is congeneric with the vocabularies assigned by Latham to the Mendocinan family. The " Soledadof Mofras" belongs to the Costanoan family mentioned oh page 348 of the same essay, as also do the Ruslen and Carmel. Of the three remaining forms of speech, Eslen, San Antonio, and San Miguel, the two latter are related dialects, and belong within the drainage of the Salinas River. The term Salinan is hence applied to them, leaving the Eslen language to be provided with a name. Population.- Though the San Antonio and San Miguel were probably never very populous tribes, the Missions of San Antonio and San Miguel, when first established in the years 1771 and 1779, contained respectively 1,400 and 1,200 Indians. Doubtless the larger number of these converts were gathered in tlie near vicinity of the two missions and so belonged to this family. In 1884 when Mr. Henshaw visited the missions he was able to learn of the existence of only about a dozen Indians of this family, and not all of these could speak their own language. SALISHAN FAMILY. ' > Salish, Gallatin in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc., n, 134, 306, 1836 ( or Flat Heads only). Latham in Proc. Philolog. Soc. Lond., n, 31- 50, 1846 ( of Duponceau. Said to be the Okanagan of Tolmie). X Salish, Keane, App. Stanford's Comp.( Cent. and So. Am.), 460, 474,1878 ( includes Flatheads, Kalispelms, Skitsuish, Colvilles, Quarlpi, Spokanes, Pisquouse, Soaiatlpi). = Salish, Bancroft, Nat. Races, in, 565, 618, 1882. > Selish, Gallatin in Trans. Am. Eth. Soc. n, pt. 1, 77,1848( vocab. of Nsietshaws). Tolmie and Dawson, Comp. Vocabs,, 63, 78, 1884 ( vocabularies of Lillooet and Kullespelm). . > Jelish, Gallatin in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, m, 402, 1853 ( obvious misprint for Selish; follows Hale as to tribes). = Selish, Gatschet in Mag. Am. Hist., 169,1877 ( gives habitat and tribes of family). Gatschet in Beach, Ind. Misc., 444,1877. < Selish, Dall, after Gibbs, in Cont. N. A. Eth., 1,241,1877( includes Yakama, which is Shahaptian). > Tsihaili- Selish, Hale in U. S. Expl. Exp., vi, 205,535,569,1846 ( includes Shush waps. Selish or Flatheads, Skitsuish, Piskwaus, Skwale, Tsihailish, Kawelitsk, Nsietshawus). Gallatin in Trans. Am. Eth. Soc., II, pt. 1, c, 10,1848( after Hale). Berghaus ( 1851), Physik. Atlas, map 17,1852. Buschmann, Spuren der aztek. Sprache, 65&- 661,1& 59. Latham, El. Comp. Phil., 399,1862( containsShushwapor Atna Proper, Kuttelspelm or Pend d'Oreilles, Selish, Spokan, Okanagan, Skitsuish, Piskwaus, Nusdalum, Kawitchen, Cathlascou, Skwali, Chechili, Kwaintl, Kwenaiwtl, Nsietshawus, Billechula). > Atnahs, Gallatin in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc., II, 134,135,306,1836 ( on Fraser River). Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, v, 427,1847 ( on Fraser River). |
