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  INDIAN 
  LINGUISTIC 
  FAMILIES. 
  

  

  Their 
  villages 
  also 
  extended 
  on 
  the 
  Pacific 
  coast 
  north 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  

   qi 
  irl 
  hern 
  extremeof 
  Shoalwater 
  Bay, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  south 
  to 
  about 
  Tilla- 
  

   mook 
  Head, 
  si 
  nne 
  20 
  miles 
  from 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Columbia. 
  

  

  PRINCIPAL 
  TRIBES. 
  

  

  Lower 
  Chinook: 
  Cathlapotle. 
  Echeloot. 
  

  

  Chinook. 
  Chilluckquittequaw. 
  Multnoma. 
  

  

  Clatsop. 
  Clackama. 
  Wahkiacum. 
  

  

  Upper 
  Chinook: 
  Cooniac. 
  Wasco. 
  

  

  Cathlamet. 
  

  

  Population. 
  — 
  There 
  are 
  two 
  hundred 
  and 
  eighty-eight 
  Wasco 
  on 
  

   the 
  Warm 
  Springs 
  Reservation. 
  Oregon, 
  and 
  one 
  hundred 
  and 
  fifty 
  

   on 
  the 
  Yakama 
  Reservation, 
  Washington. 
  On 
  the 
  Grande 
  Ronde 
  

   Reservation, 
  Oregon, 
  there 
  are 
  fifty-nine 
  Clackama. 
  From 
  informa- 
  

   tion 
  derived 
  from 
  Indians 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Thomas 
  Priestly, 
  United 
  States 
  

   Indian 
  Agent 
  at 
  Yakama, 
  it 
  is 
  learned 
  that 
  there 
  still 
  remain 
  three 
  or 
  

   four 
  families 
  of 
  " 
  regular 
  Chinook 
  Indians,'" 
  probably 
  belonging 
  to 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  down-river 
  tribes, 
  about 
  6 
  miles 
  above 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  

   Columbia. 
  Two 
  of 
  these 
  speak 
  the 
  Chinook 
  proper, 
  and 
  three 
  have 
  

   an 
  imperfect 
  command 
  of 
  Clatsop. 
  There 
  are 
  eight 
  or 
  ten 
  families, 
  

   probably 
  also 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  river 
  tribes, 
  living 
  near 
  Freeport, 
  

   Washington. 
  

  

  Some 
  of 
  the 
  Watlala, 
  or 
  Upper 
  Chinook, 
  live 
  near 
  the 
  Cascades, 
  

   about 
  55 
  miles 
  below 
  The 
  Dalles. 
  There 
  thus 
  remain 
  probably 
  be- 
  

   tween 
  five 
  and 
  six 
  hundred 
  of 
  the 
  Indians 
  of 
  this 
  family. 
  

  

  CHITIMACHAN 
  FAMILY. 
  

  

  = 
  Chitimachas, 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Trans, 
  and 
  Coll. 
  Am. 
  Antiq. 
  Soc, 
  II, 
  114, 
  117, 
  1836. 
  Prieh- 
  

   ard, 
  Phys. 
  Hist. 
  Mankind, 
  v. 
  4(17. 
  1847. 
  

  

  = 
  Chetimachas. 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Trans, 
  and 
  Coll. 
  Am. 
  Antiq. 
  Soc, 
  II, 
  300, 
  1836. 
  Gallatin 
  

   in 
  Trans.Am. 
  Eth.Soc, 
  II, 
  pt. 
  1. 
  xcix, 
  1848. 
  Latham, 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Man. 
  341,1850. 
  

   Gallatin 
  in 
  Schoolcraft, 
  Ind. 
  Tribes, 
  III. 
  402, 
  1853. 
  

  

  = 
  Chetiniacha, 
  Latham 
  in 
  Proc. 
  Philolog. 
  Soc. 
  Lond., 
  n, 
  31-50,1846. 
  Latham. 
  

   Opusculp, 
  293. 
  1860. 
  

  

  = 
  Chetemachas, 
  Gallatin 
  in 
  Trans.Am. 
  Eth. 
  Soc., 
  n,pt. 
  1,77, 
  1848 
  (same 
  as 
  Chiti- 
  

   machas). 
  

  

  = 
  Shetimasha, 
  Gatschet, 
  I 
  Ireek 
  Mig. 
  Legend, 
  l. 
  44. 
  1884. 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  Science. 
  414. 
  

   April 
  29, 
  1887. 
  

  

  Derivation: 
  From 
  Choctaw 
  words 
  tchiiti. 
  "cooking 
  vessels." 
  

   masha. 
  " 
  they 
  possess," 
  (Gatschet). 
  

  

  This 
  family 
  was 
  based 
  upou 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  the 
  tribe 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   name, 
  " 
  formerly 
  living 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Lake 
  Barataria, 
  and 
  still 
  

   existing 
  (1830) 
  in 
  lower 
  Louisiana.*' 
  

  

  Du 
  Pratz 
  asserted 
  that 
  the 
  Taensa 
  and 
  Chitimacha 
  were 
  kindred 
  

   tribes 
  of 
  the 
  Na'htchi. 
  A 
  vocabulary 
  of 
  the 
  Shetimasha, 
  however, 
  

   revealed 
  to 
  Gallatin 
  no 
  traces 
  of 
  such 
  affinity. 
  He 
  considered 
  both 
  

  

  