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limited, I was neither able to accomplish the work in a satisfactory manner, nor to 

 prosecute certain other inquiries necessary to my main design. This schedule, 

 therefore, as well as the one that follows, is given without being satisfied with its 

 correctness. For some reason she was unable to give the name of her nation 

 among the whites. It seamed probable that she belonged to some band of a nation 

 and could not be made to understand it was the name of the nation, and not of the 

 band that was desired. From the place of her nativity, which was near Fort Good 

 Hope, the chief trading post of the Hare Indians, it is probable that she belonged 

 to a division of that nation. 1 Td-na'-tin-ne, the name by which the people called 

 themselves, will furnish the means for their future identification. 



First Indicative Feature. My brother's son and daughter, Ego a male, are my 

 son and daughter. With Ego a female, they are the same. 



Second. My sister's son and daughter, Ego a female, are my son and daughter. 

 This is probably an error. With Ego a female, they are the same. 



Third. My father's brother is my father. 



Fourth. My father's brother's son and daughter are my brother and sister, 

 elder or younger. 



Fifth. My father's sister is my aunt. 



Sixth. My mother's brother is probably my uncle, although the term given 

 proved to be a translation of the question. 



Seventh. My mother's sister is my mother. 



Eighth. My mother's sister's son and daughter are my brother and sister, 

 elder or younger. 



Ninth. My grandfather's brother is my grandfather. 



Tenth. The grandchildren of my brothers and sisters, and of my collateral 

 brothers and sisters, are severally my grandchildren. 



The relationship of cousin is unknown, and the children of a brother and sister, 

 as in the last case, are brothers and sisters to each other. 



It seems probable that I obtained only that part of the system which is used by 

 the females, and that I failed to procure the other portion. I could not ascertain 

 from this woman that there was any term in their language for nephew or niece, 

 used either by the males or the females. The existence of a term for aunt, and 

 the probable existence of a term for uncle, tends to show that these relationships 

 were discriminated on the side of the males, although not on the part of the 

 females. Amongst the Gulf nations it has been seen that the females have an 

 aunt, but no nephew or niece. It is further probable that with Ego a male, my 

 brother's son and daughter are my step-children, and that my father's brother is my 

 step-father. 



3. Red-Knives. Tdl-sote-e-nd. The system of relationship of the Red-Knives was 

 obtained from two half-blood women of that nation, whom I found at the Convent 



1 The Hudson's Bay Company pay little or no attention to the national or ethnic divisions of the 

 Indians. Their posts are established with exclusive reference to certain geographical districts ; and the 

 people are known to them, chiefly, as attached to certain posts. In their classification, as we have seen 

 ante, they are called " Tbickwood Indians," "Plaiu Tribes," " Canada Indians," and " Esquimaux." 



