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Show CHAPTER VIII INDIANS OF THE NORTHERN INTERIOR AND OP THE LOWER PACIFIC COAST ( 1800- 1900) PASSING up the Yukon River in Alaska, or the Mackenzie in British Columbia, or crossing the Coast Range in British Columbia, the widely distributed Athapascan family is encountered/ This stock is often referred to as Tinn6 or D& 16, which is their own name for themselves wherever found, and signifies, as usual, " men" or " people." On the north the Athapascans come into contact with the Eskimo, on the south and east with the Algonquian tribes, and on the west with the Pacific peoples. Extensions of the stock south and west are numerous, small tribes who speak unmistakable Athapascan dialects appearing in Washington, Oregon, and California; while the important Navajo and Apache ki New Mexico and Arizona form a branch of the family even more important numerically than that of British America. , The tribes which stretch across the north of the continent from the Coast Range to Hudson Bay occupy a bleak and barren territory and have never 117 |