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s _ours_, not _theirs_; and that those who, by looking to facts rather than words, have criticised it, have arrived at the conclusion that the creed of the Indians of the St. Lawrence and Mississippi is neither better nor worse than the creed of the Indians of the Columbia. Both are alike, Shamanistic. And so is the Eskimo. The names in detail of the Indians of British Oregon, over and above those of the Athabaskan family already enumerated, are as follows; Dr. Scouler still being the authority, and, along with him, Mr. Tolmie and Mr. Hale. 1. The _Chimsheyan_, or _Chimmesyan_, on the sea-coast and islands about 55 deg. North lat. Their tribes are the _Naaskok_, the _Chimsheyan Proper_, the _Kitshatlah_, and the _Kethumish_. 2. The _Billichula_, on the mouth of the Salmon River. 3. The _Hailtsa_, on the sea-coast, from Hawkesbury Island to Broughton's Archipelago, and (perhaps) the northern part of Quadra's and Vancouver's Island. Their tribes are the _Hyshalla_, the _Hyhysh_, the _Esleytuk_, the _Weekenoch_, the _Nalatsenoch_, the _Quagheuil_, the _Ttatla-shequilla_, and the _Lequeeltoch_. The numerals from Fitz-Hugh Sound will be noticed in the sequel. 4. _The Nutka Sound Indians_ occupy the greater part of Quadra's and Vancouver's Island, speak the _Wakash_ language, and fall into the following tribes-- _a._ _The Naspatl._ _b._ _The Nutkans Proper._ _c._ _The Tlaoquatsh._ _d._ _The Nittenat._ 5. _The Shushwah_, or _Atna_, are bounded on the north by the Takulli, belong to the interior rather than the coast, are members of a large family, called the _Tsihaili-Selish_, extending far into the United States. According to Mr. Hale, they present the remarkable phenomenon of an aboriginal stock having increased from about four hundred to twelve hundred, instead of diminishing. 6. _The Kitunaha_, _Cutanies_, or _Flat-bows_, hardy, brave and shrewd hunters on the Kitunaha, or Flat-bow River, and conterminous with the Blackfoots, are the Oregon Indians whose habits most closely approach those of the Indians to the east of the Rocky Mountains. * * * * * To some of these I now return, since three points of Algonkin ethnology require special notice. _a._ _The Nascopi_ or _Skoffi_.--This is a frontier tribe. Much as we connect the ideas of cold and cheerless sterility with the inclement climate and naked moorlands of Labrador, and much as we connect the Eskimo as a p
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