VI PREFACE. 



Lieut. Stoney, in 1885, establish the fat-t that the region to the north of those luoun- 

 taius is occupied by Athapascan tribes, and the map is colored accordingly. Only 

 in two places in Alaska do the Athapascan tribes reach the coast : the K'uaia-kho- 

 tana, ou Cook's Inlet, and the Ahtheua, of Cooper River. 



Pacific group. — Unlike the tril)es of the Northern group, most of those of the Pacific 

 group have removed from their priscan habitats since the advent of the white race. 

 The Pacific group embraces the following : Kwalhioqua, formerly on Willopah River, 

 Washington, near the lower Chinook; Owilapsh, formerly between Shoahvater Bay 

 and the heads of the Chehalis River, Washington, the territory of these two tribes 

 being practically continuous; Tlatscauai, formerly ou a sm ill stream on tht; north- 

 west side of Wapato;) Island, (xibbs was informed by an old Indian that this tribe 

 "formerly owned the prairies on theTsilialis at the mouth of the .Skuknmchnck, but, 

 ou the failure of game, left the country, crossed the Columbia River, and occupied 

 the mountains to the south," a statement of too uncertain character to be depended 

 upon; the Athapascan tribes now on the Graude Ronde and Siletz Reservations, 

 Oregon, whose villages on and near the coast extended from Coquille River south- 

 ward to the California line, including, among otiiers, the Upper Coiiuille, Sixes, 

 Euchre, Creek, Joshua, Tutu tfiune, ami other "Rogue River" or "Tou-touten 

 bands," Chasta Costa, Galice Creek, Naltuune tiinne, and Chetco villages; the Atha- 

 pascan villages formerly on .Smith River and tributaries, California; those villages 

 extending southward from Smith River along the California coast to the mouth of 

 Klamath River ; the Hupa villages or "clans" formerly on Lower Trinity River, 

 California; the Kenesti or Wailakki (2), located as follows: "They live aloug the 

 western slope of the Shasta Mountains, from North Eel River, above Round Valley, 

 to Hay Fork; along Eel aiiil Mad rivers, extending down the latter about to Low 

 Gap; also on Dobbins and Lirrabie creeks;" and Saiaz, who "formerly occupied 

 the tongue of land jutting down between Eel River and Van Dusen's Fork." 



Southern group. — Includes the Navajo, Apache, and Lipau. Engineer .Jose Cortez, 

 one of the earliest authorities on these tribes, writing in 1799, defines the boundaries 

 of the Lipau and Apache as extending north and s )uth from 29- N. to 36^ N., an 1 

 east and west from 99^ W. to 114^ W. ; in other words, from central Texas nearly 

 to the Colorado River in Arizona, where they met tribes of the Yuma stock. The 

 Lipan occupied the eastern part of the above territory, extending in Texas from the 

 Comanche country (about Red River) south to the Rio Grande. More recently both 

 Lipau and Ajjache have gradually moved southward into Mexico, where they extend 

 as far as Durango. 



The Navajo, since first known to history, have occupied the country on and south 

 of the San .Juan River in northern New Mexico and Arizona and extending into 

 Colorado and Utah. They were surrounded on all sides by the cognate Apache 

 except upon the north, where they meet Shoshonean tribes. 



The present voliiiue eiiibra-res .544 titular entries, of which 428 relate 

 to printed boolvs and articles and Il<> to manuscripts. Of these, 517 

 have been seen and described by the compiler, \11 of the prints and 

 95 of the manuscripts, leaving 27 as derived from outside sources, 1(> of 

 the prints and 21 manuscripts. Of those unseen by the writer, titles 

 and descriptions have been received in most cases from persons who 

 have actually seen the works and described them for him. 



So far as possible, during the proof-reading", direct comparison has 

 been made with the works themselves. For this purpose, besides his 

 own books, the writer has had access to those in the libraries of Con- 

 gress, the Bureau of Ethnology, the Smithsonian Institution, and to 

 several pi-ivate collections in the city of Washington. Mr, Wilberforce 



