4 CHEPEWYANS. 



people. To the eastward of the Dog-ribs are the 

 Ked-krrives, named by their southern neighbours 

 the Tantsa-ut-dtinne (Birch-rind people). They 

 inhabit a stripe of country running northwards 

 from Great Slave Lake, and in breadth from the 

 Great Fish River to the Coppermine. They were 

 also formerly in the habit of resorting to the north 

 end of Great Bear Lake, to kill musk-oxen and 

 rein-deer ; but many of their influential men being 

 cut off by treachery in a feud with the Dog-ribs, they 

 have lately kept more towards the east end of Great 

 Slave Lake. These three tribes roam northwards 

 to the Eskimo boundary line, but mutual fears 

 cause the two people to leave an ample neutral 

 ground, on which neither party are willing to 

 venture. 



Other members of the 'Tinne nation inhabit 

 the country at the mouth of the Missinipi, and 

 carry their furs to Fort Churchill, where they 

 meet the Eskimos that come from the northward, 

 and, through the influence of the traders, carry on 

 an amicable intercourse with them, so that 'Tinne 

 families occasionally accompany the Eskimos to 

 their hunting-grounds. A wide tract of barren 

 lands intervenes between the Churchill 'Tinne and 

 the Red-knives, and the tribes on the Slave and 

 Elk Rivers which resort to Fort Chepewyan. 

 These " barren grounds " are very thinly peopled, 



