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1898-99. | ON THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF THE DENE TRIBES. 81 
of the Indians whom Franklin had found in the steppes watered by 
Hearne’s Coppermine River. The Yellow-Knives, who, according to 
Petitot, are related to the Cariboo-Eaters, live to the northeast of Great 
Slave Lake. They are the Copper Indians of Franklin. 
“But who are the Cariboo-Eaters ?” asks Prof. Campbell. They are, 
according to Petitot, an important tribe which “hunts on the steppes 
lying to the east of lakes Cariboo, Wollaston and Athabaska. Fort 
Fond du Lac is their rendezvous on the latter lake.”* The same 
information is to be found in the essay prefixed to his polyglot 
dictionary which Prof. Campbell has seen. 
As an instance of hasty writing, I must quote another of the latter’s 
statements. “The Loucheux,’ he says, “are the Kutchins, Father 
Morice’s Tudukh,’—he means Tukudh, but the printer is probably 
responsible for the deformation of the name. Now I invariably called 
that tribe Loucheux, and the only time I mentioned at all the word 
Tukudh I did so by way of indirectly protesting against it. I said: 
“The Nah’ane hunt over a territory the northern limits’ of which are 
the southern frontiers of the Loucheux ;” and in a foot-note I explained 
under the word Loucheux, “the so-called ‘Tukudh’ or ‘ Kut-chin.’” + 
Small matter to be sure, but important enough in that it shows the 
degree of carefulness observed by a writer. The Anglican Bishop 
Bompas and the Rev. R. McDonald are the parties responsible for that 
nickname, and, after them, Pilling who wrongly thought it represented 
a tribe different from the Loucheux. 
Another proofof the Rev. Mr. Campbell’s hasty writing I find in his 
reproduction of my list of the septs of three Western Déné tribes. 
Not only does he mix up the extraneous names of those tribes with 
those of their subdivisions, but he omits one of the latter which is to be 
found in the addenda to the paper from which he derives the whole list. 
I must further add that the omission of the apostrophe denoting the all 
important exploding or clicking sound renders all these words meaning- 
less in Indian. 
“ Father Morice has questioned the native origin of Déné government 
by.toenaz-as (/ege tcenezas), notables or chiefs.’ Loose writing again. 
I never questioned the native origin of any such government since I 
asserted that the Dénés had no form of government whatever. Ina 
paper published by the Royal Society of Canada, I did state that the 
* Mémoire abrégé sur la Géographie del Athabaskaw— MacKenzie, p. 224. 
t The Western Dénés, Proc. Can; Inst., Vol. vii., p. 112. 
t His ** Bibliography of the Athapaskan Languages” is full of similar errors. 
