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are given without an exception, though I do not detail the ramifications 

 or subdivisions of the Loucheux, and therefore omit any mention of the 

 Kenai or K'naia-Kho-tana. The figures represent the population of 

 each tribal division. In the case of the southern tribes they are com- 

 piled from the latest official accounts available. For the north-eastern 

 divisions they are those of Rev. E. Petitot corrected down to date by 

 Mr. Rod. Macfarlane, an H. B. Go's officer who has passed over 40 years 

 of his life among the Indians he enumerates. I am myself responsible 

 for the figures representing the numbers of the north-western tribes. 



CLASSIFICATION OF THK DENE TRIBES. 

 Northern D^niis. 



About 



Loucheux : Lower Mackenzie River and Alaska 4,400 



Hares : Mackenzie, Anderson and MacFarlane Rivers 600 



Bad-People : Old Fort Halkett 200 



Slaves : west of Great Slave Lake and McKenzie River 1,000 



Dog-Ribs : between Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake. . . . 1,000 



Yellow-Knives : north-east of Great Slave Lake 500 



Cariboo-Eaters : east of Lake Athabaska 1,200 



Chippewayans : Lake Athabaska, etc 3,000 



Tse'kehne : both sides of Rocky Mountains 500 



Beavers : south side of Peace River 700 



Sarcees : east of Rocky Mountains, 51° lat. north and south. lOO 



Nahane : Stickeen River and east 70c 



Carriers : Stuart's Lake, north and south i,6oc 



TsijKoh'tin : Chilcotin River 460 



Southern Di^nj^s. 



Umkwas, Totunies and (?) Kwalhiokwas : Oregon 150 



Hupas : Hupa Valley, California 492 



Waild,kis : Northern California (?) ^3^ 



Navajos : Arizona 16,102 



Apaches : Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona 5,702 



Lipans : New Mexico 40 



Total of the Northern Tribes 1 5,960 



Total of the Southern Tribes* , 22,616 



Total of the whole nation* 38,576 



* Exclusive of the problematic Kwalhiokwas, the Umkwas of the Siletz Agency, the Mexican 

 Apaches, or any such bands as are not controlled, even remotely, by the office of the U. S. 

 Commissioner Indian Affairs. 



