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INDIAN STOCKS OF NORTH AMERICA, NORTH OF CENTRAL MEXICO. 



Algonquian 36 



Athapascan 53 



Attacapan 2 



Beothukan i 



Caddoan 9 



Chimakuan ........ 2 



Chimarikan 2 



Chimmesyan 8 



Chinookan 11 



Chitimachan i 



Chumashan 6 



Coahuiltecan 22 



Copehan 22 



Costanoan 5 



Eskimauan 70 



Esselenian i 



Iroquoian 13 



Kalapooian 8 



Karankawan i 



Keresan 17 



Kiovvan i 



Kitunahan 4 



Koluschan 12 



Kulanapan 30 



Kusan 4 



Lutuamian 4 



Mariposan 24 



Moquelumnan 35 



Muskhogean 9 



Nahuatlan ? 



Natchesan 2 



Palaihnihan 8 



Piman 7 



Pujunan 26 



Quoratcan 3 



Salinan 2 



Salishan 64 



Sastean i 



Serian 3 



Shahaptian 7 



Shoshonean 12 



Sioiian 68 



Skittagetan 17 



Takilman i 



Tanoan 14 



Timuquanan 60 



Tonikan 3 



Tonkawan i 



Uchean i 



Waiilatpuan 2 



Wakashan 37 



Washoan i 



Weitspekan 6 



Wishoskan 3 



Yakonan 4 



Yanan i 



Yukian 5 



Yuman 9 



Zunian i 



While this classification of the tribes is immediately and 

 ostensibly based on linguistic characters, it has a much 

 deeper significance than might appear at first glance. In 

 the first place, the linguistic characters have been found to 

 be interrelated with other characters, including those ex- 

 pressed in arts, industries, institutions, and beliefs, and were 

 used in the classification only because, of the essentially 

 collective or demotic features of the Indians, they were most 

 easily ascertained. In the second place, the several cate- 



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