uch do more. The Loucheux possessive pronoun is the same as the
Kenay. Thus--

ENGLISH. LOUCHEUX. KENAY.

_My_-son _se_-jay _ssi_-ja.
_My_-daughter _se_-zay _ssa_-za.

Fuller descriptions, however, of both the Loucheux and Nehanni are
required before we can decidedly pronounce them to be Koluch; indeed,
so high an authority as Gallatin places the latter amongst the
Athabaskans.

_The Fall Indians._--In a MS. communicated by Mr. Gallatin to Dr.
Prichard, and, by the latter kindly lent to myself, and examined by me
some years back, was a vocabulary of the language of the Indians of the
Falls of the Saskatchewan. In this their native name was written
_Ahnenin_. Mr. Hale, however, calls them _Atsina_. Which is correct is
difficult to say.

_Gros ventres_ is another of their designations; _Minetari of the
Prairie_ another. This last is inconvenient, as well as incorrect, since
the true _Minetari_ are a Sioux tribe, different in language, manners,
and descent.

_Arrapaho_ is a third synonym; and this is important, since there are
other _Arrapahoes_ as far south as the Platte and Arkansas Rivers.

The identity of name is _prima facie_ evidence of two tribes so distant
as those of Arkansas and the Saskatchewan being either offsets from one
another, or else from some common stock; but it is not more. Nothing can
be less conclusive. This has just been shown to be in the case of the
term _Minetari_.

The Ahnenin, or Atsina language is peculiar; though the confederacy to
which the Indians who speak it belong, is the Blackfoot.

Of the southern Arrapaho we have no vocabulary; neither do we know
whether the name be native or not.

* * * * *

A tract still stands over for notice. As we have no exact northern
limits for the Nehanni, no exact western ones for the Dahodinni, and no
exact southern ones for the Loucheux, the parts due east of the Russian
boundary are undescribed.

I can only _contribute_ to the ethnology here.

_The Ugalentses._--Round Mount St. Elias we have a population of
_Ugalentses_ or Ugalyakhmutsi. Though said to consist of less than forty
families,[76] as their manners are migratory, it is highly probable that
some of them are British.

_The Tshugatsi_.--In contact with the Ugalents, who are transitional
between the true Eskimo and the true Koluch, the Tshugatsi are
unequivocally Eskimo. The parts about Prince William's Sound are the