niau speak of the Kuteha Kutchiu, who inhabit the "Yukon from the 

 Birch Eiver to the Kotlo Eiver on the east and the Porcupine River on 

 the north, ascendinj;- the latter a short distance.'" 

 •i One of the tribes with which they liaxc dealings is the " Kat Indians" 

 of the Hudson Bay men, jirobably tlie Viiiita' Iviitchiu,^ from the fact 

 that they visit Fort Yukon. These are tlie people whom Capt. Masuire 

 met on his unsuccessful sledj;c Journey to the eastward to communicate 

 with Collinson. The Point Barrow people told us that "Magwa" went 

 east to see "Colli'k-sina," but did not see him, only saw the ItkMliM. 

 Collinson,' speaking- of Maguire's second winter at Point Barrow, says: 

 "In attemiiting to prosecute the searcii easterly, an armed body of 

 Indians of the Koynkuu tribe were met with, and were so hostile that 

 he was compelled to return." Maguire himself, in his official report,^ 

 speaks of meeting /oio- Indians who had followed his party for seveial 

 days. He says nothing of any hostile demonstration ; in fact, says they 

 showed signs of disappointment at his having nothing to trade with 

 them, but his Eskimo, he says, called them Kojiikiin, which he knew 

 was the tribe that had so barbarously murdered Lieut. Barnard at 

 Nulato in 1851. Moreover, each Indian had a musket, and he had only 

 two with a party of eight men, so he tlunight it safer to turn back. 

 However, he seems to have distributed among them printed "informa- 

 tion slips," which they immediately carried to Fort Yukcm, and return- 

 ing to the coast ^vith a letter from the clerk in charge, delivered it to 

 Capt. CoUinson on board of the Enterprise at Barter Island, July 18, 

 1854. The letter is as follows ; 



Four YoreoN, June 27, 1S54. 

 The. priuteil slips of paper delivered by tile ortieeis of H. M. .S. Plover on the 25th 

 of April, 1854, to the Rat IiuUaus were received on the 27th of June, 1854, at the 

 Hudson Bay Company's establishment, Fort Youcon. The Rat Indians are in the 



I ■■ The iDlandEakimo also call them Ko'-yukan, .ami divide them into three sections or tribes. * - * 

 One is called I't-ka-lyi [apparently the plural of Itk&dllii), • ■ * the second It-kal-ya'-ruin [difl'er- 

 ent or other Itkttdlln]," op. cit., p. 269. 



'Dall, Cont. to N. A. Etbn., vol.1, p. 30, where they are identified with Itkalyaruiu of Simpson. 



>Ibid.. p. 31. 



*Arctic Paper.'^. ji. 119. 



*• Further papers, etc., jtp. 905 et seq. 



