EXHIBITS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. 



EXHIBIT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. 

 MAP OF THE ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



This map shows the distribution, according to languages of the North American 

 Indians exclusive of Mexico at the time of Christopher Columbus. This map has 

 been in preparation by the Bureau of Ethnology for a number of years. The fol 

 lowing is a list of the principal tribes, classified by families according to language 

 as displayed on the map : 

 Adaizan family (Texas): Adai. 



Algonquian family (in the east of the United States and Canada) : Abnaki, Algon 

 quin, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Cree, Delaware, Kickapoo, 

 Menomiuee, Miami, Micmac, Missisaga, Montagnais, Mohegan, Narraganset, 

 Ojibwa, Ottawa, Pequot, Potto wotomi, Powhatan, Sac and Fox, Shawnee. 

 (23.) 



Athapascan family (northwestern Canada) : Kutchin, Slave, Taculli, Hupa, and the 

 various tribes of the Apache, Chippewyau, Dog Ribs. Hares, Nahanies, Navajo. 

 (10.) 



Attacapan family (Texas) : Attacapa. 

 Beothukan family (Newfoundland) : Beothuk. 



Caddoan family (Louisiana) : Pawnee, Arikara, Wichita, Keechi, Caddo. (5.) 

 Chimakuan family (coast of the State of Washington) : Chimakum, Quile Ute. (2.) 

 Chimarikan family (coast of California) : Chimariko, Chimalakwe. (2.) 

 Chimmesyan family (coast of British Columbia) : Chimsian, Nass. (2.) 

 Chinookan family (coast of the State of Washington) : Cathlamet, Chinuk, Clatsop, 



Wasco. (4. ) 



Chitimachan family (Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana) : Chitimacha. 



Chumashan family (coast of California) : Indians of San Buenaventura, Santa Bar 

 bara, and San Luis Obispo, Cal. (3.) 



Coahuiltecan family (Texas) : Comecrudo, Cotoname, Pacaos or Piiitos. (3.) 

 Copehan family (coast of California) : ThePatwinand Wintu tribes of California. (2.) 

 Costanoan family (coast of California) : Costano. 



Eskimo family (on the northeast coast of the ocean): Aluik, Ivimiut, Narsuk, 

 Taterat, of Greenland ; Itivimiut, etc., of Labrador ; Aggomiut, Negumiut, etc., of 

 the central Arctic region ; Chiglit, Ikogmiut, Kuagmiut, Oglemiut, Unaligmiut, 

 etc., of Alaska, and the Atka and Unalaska, of the Aleutian Islands. (14.) 

 Esselenian family (coast of California) : Esselen. 

 Iroquois family (Atlantic Coast) : Cherokee, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, 



Seneca, Tuscarora, Wyandot, Iroquois. (9.) 



Kalapooian family (coast of Oregon) : Atfalati, Calopooya, Lakmiut, Yoncalla. (4.) 

 Karankawan family (Texas) : Karankawa. 

 Keresan family (New Mexico) : Acoma, Tochiti, Laguna, Sin Felipe, Santa Ana, Santo 



Domingo, Sia. (7.) , 



Kiowau family (Wyoming and Nebraska) : Kiowa. 



Kitunahan family (Idaho and British Columbia) : Cootenai, Akoklako, Klanoh- 

 Klatklam and Tobacco Plains Cooteuai. (4.) 



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