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Show 110 INDIAN LINGUISTIC FAMILIES. far to the southward Shoshonean tribes extended at this early period is not known, though the evidence tends to show that they raided far down into Texas to the territory they have occupied in more recent years, viz, the extensive plains from the Rocky Mountains eastward into Indian Territory and Texas to about 97°. Upon the south Shoshonean territory was limited generally by the Colorado River. The Chemehuevi lived on both banks of the river between the Mohave on the north and the Cuchan on the south, above and below Bill Williams Fork.' The Kwaiantikwoket also lived to the east of the river in Arizona about Navajo Mountain, while the Tu-sayan ( Moki) had established their seven pueblos, including one founded by people of TafLoan stock, to the east of the Colorado Chi-quito. In the southwest Shoshonean tribes had pushed across California, occupying a wide band of country to the Pacific. In their extension northward they had reached as far as Tulare Lake, from which territory apparently they had dispossessed the Mariposan tribes, leaving a small remnant of that linguistic family near Fort Tejon. a A little farther north they had crossed the Sierras and occupied the heads of San Joaquin and Kings Rivers. Northward they occupied nearly the whole of Nevada, being limited on the west by the Sierra Nevada. The entire southeastern part of Oregon was occupied by tribes of Shoshoni extraction. PRINCIPAL TRIBES AND POPULATION. Bannock, 514 on Fort Hall Reservation and 75 on the Lemhi Reservation, Idaho. Chemehuevi, about 202 attached to the Colorado River Agency, Arizona. Comanche, 1,598 on the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Reservation, Indian Territory. Gosiute, 256 in Utah at large. * Pai Ute, about 2,300 scattered in southeastern California and southwestern Nevada. Paviotso, about 3,000 scattered in western Nevada and southern Oregon. Saidyuka, 145 under Klamath Agency. Shoshoni, 979 under Fort Hall Agency and 249 at the Lemhi Agency. Tobikhar, about 2,200, under the Mission Agency, California. Tukuarika, or Sheepeaters, 108 at Lemhi Agency. Tusayan ( Moki), 1,996 ( census of 1890). Uta, 2,839 distributed as follows : 985 under Southern Ute Agency, Colorado; 1,021 on Ouray Reserve, Utah; 833 on Uintah Reserve, Utah. 1 Ives, Colorado River, 1861, p. 54. 8 Powers in Cont. N. A. Eth., 1877, vol. 3, p. 869. |
