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Show 128 BASIS OP AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1800 the Lutuamian linguistic family, and are also possibly akin to the Shahaptian. NThey led a free hunting and fishing life and were the terror of the less vigorous tribes to the south and west. The Modoc, who formed the southern extension of the family, made annual raids into northern California for the capture of slaves, whom they carried to The Dalles and traded with the other tribes who congregated at that point.^ They had no clan organization and led a life siihilar to that of their Shahaptian neighbors. ^ Peculiar developments of the Klamath were their characteristic earth- covered lodges and the gathering of water- lily seeds for food. These plants grow in great abundance in Klamath Lake and vicinity, and seem to have been a decided factor in determining the habitat of this group of Indians. 1 Ntouth of the Chinook and west of the Kalapooian tribes there ranged along the sea- coast of Oregon a series of small and relatively unimportant linguistic stocks, of which the Yakonan* about Yaquina Bay may be regarded as a type.\ Though living on and near the coast, they seem to nave depended more upon the rivers and land than upon the sea for their food supply; v The Yakonan tribes exhibit the generally coarse facial formation and undersized stature of the northern coast peoples, and are 1 Gatschet, The Klamath Indians. 1 Farrand," The Alsea Indians of Oregon " ( American Anthropologist, N. S., III., 239). - |
