26 TRANSACTIONS OF THK CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. IV.. 



Under the name of Upper Carriers I include : — 



6. The Na- kra-ztli- tenne or people of Na'kraztli * Stuart's Lake 

 They inhabit two villages, Na'kraztli and Pintce+ on the southern end, 



and on the middle of Stuart's Lake. They number i8o souls, and they 

 are of all the Carriers those who have made the greatest strides towards 

 civilization. 



7. Immediately to the north-west, on the same lake and its tributaries, 

 Lakes Tremblay, That'|ah, % and Connolly, a second subdivision of the 

 Upper Carriers, the seventh of the whole tribe, occupies four smal 

 villages, two only of which are regularly organized with a chief and the 

 usual native officers. These are Tha-tce, || and Sas-thut§ respectively at 

 the confluence of Thatce river on Stuart's Lake and near Fort Connolly 

 on the lake of that name. The others are 'Kaztce ** formerly an 

 important locality on Thatce river and Ya-Ku-tce -f-f at the north-Western 

 extremity of Stuart's Lake. The original home of all these bands was. 

 at the end of that lake, as is manifest from their common name as a sept: 

 T'jaz-tenne, people of the bottom or end of the lake. Their total 

 population is not over 90. 



Some nine or ten years ago, Drs. Tolmie and Dawson published 

 conjointly a valuable ethnological map of this province, :J:^ which does not 

 tally in every respect with my description of the northern limits of the 

 Carriers' territory. The line of demarcation between the Carriers and the 

 Tse'kehnes' hunting grounds passes, on that map, through the middle of 

 Thatlah lake, giving the latter a large strip of land wkich I grant to the 

 former. I must explain that the authors of that map thereby point to the 

 de Jure or original territory of the Carriers, while I sketch above the 

 de facto or actual limits thereof. By right Bear's or Connolly lake and 

 adjacent country belong to the Tse'kehne tribe ; but, as a matter of fact^ 

 the village which is situated close to the H. B. Co's. fort is now the 



* For the etymology of this name, see " The Dene Languages," Trans. Can. Inst. 1889-90,. 

 p. 188. 



+ Confluence of the Pin river. 



X "Bottom of the water," the equivalent of the French "Fond du Lac." The real native- 

 name of this lake is R^Z-w-/^;/, /eV, '■^ burden-nmr-lake." 



II " The tail," (i.e., confluence in the lake) of the water. 



§ " Black Bear bathing place." 



** Confluence of the 'A>3 river. 



+t The confluence of the river YiKuztli, (the outlet of YaKo lake). 



Appended to " Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian tribes of B.C.; Montreal, 1884^ 



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