14 TRIBES OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA 



believes that spirits of his ancestors may dwell 

 in animals. Therefore the human and animal 

 features are combined in sketches, tattooing, and 

 masks. 



Very different from British Columbia is a vast 

 stretch of country from the eastern slopes of the 

 Rocky Mountains to the shores of Hudson Bay. 

 Here are to be found many branches of the Dene 

 Indians under the names of &quot; Beavers,&quot; &quot; Dog 

 Ribs/ and &quot; Yellow Knives,&quot; who have figured 

 in many a story of breathless adventure ; and it is 

 with this snow-clad trappers country that Jack 

 London has dealt in several of his novels. On the 

 southern shore of Hudson Bay the Algonkin 

 Indians have come into contact with Eskimo 

 peoples, but nowhere are the two very friendly. 

 To the south of the Algonkins are the Lakes 

 Superior, Erie, and Ontario, in which region live 

 the remnants of such important tribes as the Huron, 

 Iroquois, and Mohawks ; the last named have 

 been the heroes of many a story book. In the year 

 1858 all Indian tribes came under the charge of a 

 special department of the Dominion Government, 

 which set aside certain localities for their use. 

 Naturally the natives changed very rapidly when 

 ifi contact with Europeans, so that to-day they are 

 not the wild people described by siich travellers as 

 Eraser, Vancouver, and Mackenzie, who explored 

 the North -West Territories between the years 1793 

 and 1808, Indian dress, weapons, canoes, carving, 

 religious songs, and dances are still extremely 

 common, and in the United States there is a special 

 department of the Government concerned with the 



