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The Lucktons are found 'adjoining the Killamucks, and in a direction S.S.E.' _Lewis and Clarke's Trav._, p. 427.

The Jakon, or Yakones, dwell south of the Killamooks on the coast.

_Hale's Ethnog._, in _U. S. Ex. Ex._, vol. vi., p. 218, and map, p. 197.

The Tlatskanai are farther inland than the Killamooks. _Id._, p. 204.

The _Umpquas_ live 'on a river of that name.' _Framboise_, in _Lond.

Geog. Soc. Jour._, vol. ii., p. 256. 'In a valley of the same name.

They are divided into six tribes; the Sconta, Chalula, Palakahu, Quattamya, and Chasta.' _Parker's Explor. Tour_, p. 262. Umbaquas.

_Id._, p. 262. 'Umpquas (3 tribus) sur la riviere de ce nom, et de la riviere aux Vaches.' _Mofras_, _Explor._, tom. ii., p. 335. 'The Umkwa inhabit the upper part of the river of that name, having the Kalapuya on the north, the Lutuami (Clamets), on the east, and the Sainstkla between them and the sea.' _Hale's Ethnog._, in _U. S. Ex. Ex._, vol. vi., p.

204, and map, p. 197. Two hundred and twenty-five miles south of the Columbia. _Hines' Voy._, p. 94. 'The country of the Umpquas is bounded east by the Cascade mountains, west by the Umpqua mountains and the ocean, north by the Calipooia mountains and south by Grave Creek and Rogue River mountains.' _Palmer_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1854, p. 255; _Emmons_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. iii., p. 201, vol. v., p. 492.

The Saiustkla reside 'upon a small stream which falls into the sea just south of the Umqua River.' _Hale's Ethnog._, in _U. S. Ex. Ex._, vol.

vi., p. 221, map, p. 197. Sinselaw, 'on the banks of the Sinselaw river.' _Harvey_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1863, p. 80. Sayousla, 'near the mouth of Sayousla bay.' _Brooks_, in _Id._, 1862, p. 299. Saliutla, 'at the mouth of the Umbaqua river.' _Parker's Explor. Tour_, p. 262.

The Katlawotsetts include the Siuslaw and Alsea bands on Siuslaw River; the Scottsburg, Lower Umpqua, and Kowes Bay bands on Umpqua River.

_Drew_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1857, p. 359. Kiliwatshat, 'at the mouth of the Umpqua.' _Hale's Ethnog._, in _U. S. Ex. Ex._, vol. vi., p. 221.

The Alseas, or Alseyas, live on Alsea Bay. _Brooks_, in _Ind. Aff.

Rept._, 1862, p. 299; _Harvey_, in _Id._, 1863, p. 80. Chocreleatan, 'at the forks of the Coquille river.' Quahtomahs, between Coquille River and Port Orford. Nasomah, 'near the mouth of the Coquille River.' _Parrish_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1854, p. 287.

[Sidenote: NATIVES OF THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY.]

Willamette Valley Nations: 'The nations who inhabit this fertile neighbourhood are very numerous. The Wappatoo inlet extends three hundred yards wide, for ten or twelve miles to the south, as far as the hills near which it receives the waters of a small creek, whose sources are not far from those of the Killamuck river. On that creek resides the Clackstar nation, a numerous people of twelve hundred souls, who subsist on fish and wappatoo, and who trade by means of the Killamuck river, with the nation of that name on the sea-coast. Lower down the inlet, towards the Columbia, is the tribe called Cathlac.u.mup. On the sluice which connects the inlet with the Multnomah, are the tribes Cathlanahquiah and Cathlacomatup; and on Wappatoo island, the tribes of Clannahminamun and Clahnaquah. Immediately opposite, near the Towahnahiooks, are the Quathlapotles, and higher up, on the side of the Columbia, the Shotos. All these tribes, as well as the Cathlahaws, who live somewhat lower on the river, and have an old village on Deer island, may be considered as parts of the great Multnomah nation, which has its princ.i.p.al residence on Wappatoo island, near the mouth of the large river to which they give their name. Forty miles above its junction with the Columbia, it receives the waters of the Clackamos, a river which may be traced through a woody and fertile country to its sources in Mount Jefferson, almost to the foot of which it is navigable for canoes. A nation of the same name resides in eleven villages along its borders: they live chiefly on fish and roots, which abound in the Clackamos and along its banks, though they sometimes descend to the Columbia to gather wappatoo, where they cannot be distinguished by dress or manners, or language, from the tribes of Multnomahs. Two days'

journey from the Columbia, or about twenty miles beyond the entrance of the Clackamos, are the falls of the Multnomah. At this place are the permanent residences of the Cushooks and Chaheowahs, two tribes who are attracted to that place by the fish, and by the convenience of trading across the mountains and down Killamuck river, with the nation of Killamucks, from whom they procure train oil. These falls were occasioned by the pa.s.sage of a high range of mountains; beyond which the country stretches into a vast level plain, wholly dest.i.tute of timber.

As far as the Indians, with whom we conversed, had ever penetrated that country, it was inhabited by a nation called Calahpoewah, a very numerous people, whose villages, nearly forty in number, are scattered along each side of the Multnomah, which furnish them with their chief subsistence, fish, and the roots along its banks.' _Lewis and Clarke's Trav._, pp. 507-8. Calapooyas, Moolallels, and Clackamas in the Willamette Valley. _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. iii., p. 200, map.

Cathlakamaps at the mouth of the Ouallamat; Cathlapoutles opposite; Cathlanaminimins on an island a little higher up; Mathlan.o.bes on the upper part of the same island; Cathlapouyeas just above the falls; the Cathlacklas on an eastern branch farther up; and still higher the Chochonis. _Stuart_, in _Nouvelles Annales des Voy._, 1821, tom. x., pp.

115, 117.

The Cathlathlas live '60 miles from the mouth of the Wallaumut.'

_Morse's Rept._, p. 368.

The Cloughewallhah are 'a little below the falls.' _Parker's Explor.

Tour_, p. 177.

The Katlawewalla live 'at the falls of the Wallamat.' _Framboise_, in _Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour._, vol. xi., p. 256.

The Leeshtelosh occupy the 'headwaters of the Multnomah.' _Hunter's Captivity_, p. 73.

The Multnomahs (or Mathlan.o.bs) dwell 'at upper end of the island in the mouth of the Wallaumut.' _Morse's Rept._, p. 368.

The Nemalquinner lands are 'N.E. side of the Wallaumut river, 3 miles above its mouth.' _Morse's Rept._, p. 370.

The Newaskees extend eastward of the headwaters of the Multnomah, on a large lake. _Hunter's Captivity_, p. 73.

The Yamkallies dwell 'towards the sources of the Wallamut River.'

_Scouler_, in _Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour._, vol. xi., p. 225.

The _Calapooyas_ live in the upper Willamette Valley. Callipooya, 'Willamette Valley.' _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 492, vol. iii., p. 201. Kalapuya, 'above the falls.' _Hale's Ethnog._, in _U. S. Ex.

Ex._, vol. vi., p. 217. Callawpohyeaas, Willamette tribes sixteen in number. _Ross' Fur Hunters_, vol. i., p. 108. Calapooah, seventeen tribes on the Willamette and its branches. _Parker's Explor. Tour_, p.

261. Callappohyeaa.s.s nation consists of Wacomeapp, Nawmooit, Chillychandize, Shookany, Coupe, Shehees, Longtonguebuff, Lamalle, and Pecyou tribes. _Ross' Adven._, pp. 236-6. Kalapooyahs, 'on the sh.o.r.es of the Oregon.' _Morton's Crania_, p. 213. 'Willamat Plains.' _Scouler_, in _Lond. Geog. Soc., Jour._, vol. xi., p. 225. Kalapuyas, 'above the falls of the Columbia.' _Domenech's Deserts_, vol. ii., p. 36. '50 miles from the mouth of the Wallaumut, W. side.' _Morse's Rept._, p. 368. Vule Puyas, Valley of the Willamette. _Warre and Vavasour_, in _Martin's Hud.

B._, p. 81.

The _Clackamas_ are on the 'Clackama River.' _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol.

v., p. 492. 'Clakemas et Kaoulis, sur le Ouallamet et la riviere Kaoulis.' _Mofras_, _Explor._, tom. ii., p. 335. 'Valley of the Clakamus and the Willamuta Falls.' _Warre and Vavasour_, in _Martin's Hud. B._, p. 81. Klackamas, 'three miles below the falls.' _Hines' Voy._, p. 144.

Clackamis. _Palmer's Jour._, p. 84. Clarkamees. _Morse's Rept._, p. 372.

Clackamus. _Lewis and Clarke's Map._

The _Mollales_ are found in 'Willamettee Valley.' _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 492. 'At the mouth of the Wallamet, and the Wapatoo Islands.'

_Tucker's Oregon_, p. 71. 'Upon the west side of the Willamette and opposite Oregon City.' _Palmer's Jour._, p. 84.

[Sidenote: THE SHUSHWAP FAMILY.]

THE SHUSHWAP FAMILY comprises all the inland tribes of British Columbia, south of lat. 52 30'.

The _Atnahs_, Strangers, Niccoutamuch, or Shushwaps proper, inhabit the Fraser and Thompson valleys. 'At Spuzzum ... a race very different both in habits and language is found. These are the Nicoutamuch, or Nicoutameens, a branch of a widely-extended tribe. They, with their cognate septs, the Atnaks, or Shuswapmuch, occupy the Frazer River from Spuzzum to the frontier of that part of the country called by the Hudson Bay Company New Caledonia, which is within a few miles of Fort Alexandria.' _Mayne's B. C._, p. 296. 'Shushwaps of the Rocky Mountains inhabit the country in the neighbourhood of Jasper House, and as far as Tete Jaune Cache on the western slope. They are a branch of the great Shushwap nation who dwell near the Shushwap Lake and grand fork of the Thompson River in British Columbia.' Thompson River and Lake Kamloops.

_Milton and Cheadle's Northw. Pa.s.s._, pp. 241, 335. 'On the Pacific side, but near the Rocky Mountains, are the Shoushwaps who, inhabiting the upper part of Frazer's River, and the north fork of the Columbia.'

_Blakiston_, in _Palliser's Explor._, p. 44. 'The Shooshaps live below the Sinpauelish Indians.' _Parker's Explor. Tour_, p. 313. 'The Shushwaps possess the country bordering on the lower part of Frazer's River, and its branches.' _Hale's Ethnog._, in _U. S. Ex. Ex._, vol.

vi., p. 205. The Atnahs or Soushwap, 'live in the country on the Fraser's and Thompson's Rivers.' 'They were termed by Mackenzie the Chin tribe.' (See p. 251, note 141 of this vol.) _Prichard's Researches_, vol. v., p. 427; _Buschmann_, _Brit. Nordamer._, p. 320. Shooshaps, south of the Sinpavelist. _De Smet_, _Voy._, pp. 50-1. 'The Atnah, or Chin Indian country extends about one hundred miles,' from Fort Alexander. _c.o.x's Adven._, vol. ii., p. 361. Shooshewaps inhabit the region of the north bend of the Columbia, in 52. Atnahs, in the region of the Fraser and Thompson rivers. _Macdonald's Lecture on B. C._, p.

10; _Hector_, in _Palliser's Explor._, p. 27. 'The Shewhapmuch (Atnahs of Mackenzie) ... occupy the banks of Thompson's River; and along Frazer's River from the Rapid village, twenty miles below Alexandria, to the confluence of these two streams. Thence to near the falls the tribe bears the name of Nicutemuch.' _Anderson_, in _Hist. Mag._, vol.

vii., p. 76.

'The Stta Llimuh, natives of Anderson Lake, speak a dialect of the Sheswap language.' Skowhomish, in the same vicinity. _McKay_, in _B. C.

Papers_, vol. ii., p. 32.

'The Loquilt Indians have their home in the winter on Lake Anderson, and the surrounding district, whence they descend to the coast in Jervis Inlet in the summer.' _Mayne's B. C._, p. 299.

The Kamloops dwell about one hundred and fifty miles north-west of Okanagan. _c.o.x's Adven._, vol. ii., p. 156.

The Clunsus are east of Fraser River, between Yale and lat.i.tude 50; Skowtous, on the fiftieth parallel south of Lake Kamloops and west of Lake Okanagan; Sockatcheenum, east of Fraser and north of 51.

_Bancroft's Map of Pac. States._

The _Kootenais_ live in the s.p.a.ce bounded by the Columbia River, Rocky Mountains, and Clarke River. The Kitunaha, Coutanies, or Flatbows, 'wander in the rugged and mountainous tract enclosed between the two northern forks of the Columbia. The Flat-bow River and Lake also belong to them.' _Hale's Ethnog._, in _U. S. Ex. Ex._, vol. vi., pp. 204-5, map, p. 297. 'Inhabit the country extending along the foot of the Rocky mountains, north of the Flatheads, for a very considerable distance, and are about equally in American and in British territory.' _Gibbs_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. i., p. 416. Kootoonais, 'on McGillivray's River, the Flat Bow Lake, etc.' _Warre and Vavasour_, in _Martin's Hud.

B._, p. 82. Kootonais, on 'or about the fiftieth parallel at Fort Kootonie, east of Fort Colville.' _Simpson's Overland Journ._, vol. i., p. 138. 'Between the Rocky Mountains, the Upper Columbia and its tributary the Killuspeha or Pend'oreille, and watered by an intermediate stream called the Kootanais River is an angular piece of country peopled by a small, isolated tribe bearing the same name as the last-mentioned river, on the banks of which they princ.i.p.ally live.' _Mayne's B. C._, p.

297. The lands of the Cottonois 'lie immediately north of those of the Flatheads.' _Irving's Bonneville's Adven._, p. 70. Kutanae, Kutani, Kitunaha, Kutneha, Coutanies, Flatbows, 'near the sources of the Mary River, west of the Rocky Mountains.' _Ludewig_, _Ab. Lang._, p. 98.

'Inhabit a section of country to the north of the Ponderas, along M'Gillivray's river.' _Parker's Explor. Tour_, p. 312. 'Koutanies ou Arcs-Plats, Pres du fort et du lac de ce nom.' _Mofras_, _Explor._, tom.

ii., p. 335. 'In the Kootanie Valley.' _Lord's Nat._, vol. ii., p. 178.

Kootonays, south of the Shushwaps. _Palliser's Explor._, p. 44. 'Great longitudinal valley' of the Kootanie river. _Hector_, in _Id._, p. 27.

'The Tobacco Plains form the country of the Kootanies.' _Blakiston_, in _Id._, p. 73. 'About the northern branches of the Columbia.' _Greenhow's Hist. Ogn._, p. 30. Kootanais, 'angle between the Saeliss lands and the eastern heads of the Columbia.' _Anderson_, in _Hist. Mag._, vol. vii., p. 79. About the river of the same name, between the Columbia and Rocky Mountains. _Nicolay's Ogn. Ter._, p. 143. A band called Sinatcheggs on the upper Arrow Lake. _Ross' Fur Hunters_, vol. ii., p. 190. The Kootenais were perhaps the Tushepaws of Lewis and Clarke.

The _Tushepaws_ are 'a numerous people of four hundred and fifty tents, residing on the heads of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, and some of them lower down the latter river.' _Lewis and Clarke's Trav._, p. 321, and map; _Bulfinch's Ogn._, p. 134. 'On a N. fork of Clarke's River.'

_Morse's Rept._, p. 372. Ootlashoots, Micksucksealton (Pend d'Oreilles?), Hohilpos (Flatheads?), branches of the Tushepaws. _Id._, and _Lewis and Clarke's Map_. The Tushepaw nation might as correctly be included in the Salish family or omitted altogether. According to _Gibbs_, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. i., p. 417, they were the Kootenais.

The _Okanagans_, or Okinakanes, 'comprise the bands lying on the river of that name, as far north as the foot of the great lake. They are six in number, viz: the Tekunratum at the mouth; Konekonep, on the creek of that name; Kluckhaitkwee, at the falls; Kinakanes, near the forks; and Milaketkun, on the west fork. With them may be cla.s.sed the N'Pockle, or Sans Puelles, on the Columbia river, though these are also claimed by the Spokanes. The two bands on the forks are more nearly connected with the Schwogelpi than with the ones first named.' _Stevens_, in _Ind. Aff.

Rept._, 1854, p. 237, and in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. i., p. 412.

Oakinackens, Priests' Rapids, northward over 500 miles, and 100 miles in width, to the Shewhaps, branching out into 12 tribes, as follows, beginning with the south: 'Skamoynumachs, Kewaughtchenunaughs, p.i.s.scows, Incomecanetook, Tsillane, Intietook, Battlelemuleemauch, or Meatwho, Inspellum, Sinpoh.e.l.lechach, Sinwhoyelppetook, Samilkanuigh and Oakinacken, which is nearly in the centre.' _Ross' Adven._, pp. 289-90.

'On both sides the Okanagan River from its mouth up to British Columbia, including the Sennelkameen River.' _Ross_, in _Ind. Aff. Rept._, 1870, p. 22. 'Pres du fort de ce nom.' _Mofras_, _Explor._, tom. ii., p. 335.

'On the Okanagan and Piscour Rivers.' _Warre and Vavasour_, in _Martin's Hud. B._, p. 82. 'Composed of several small bands living along the Okinakane river, from its confluence with the Columbia to Lake Okinakane.... A majority of the tribe live north of the boundary line.'