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  INDIAN 
  LINGUISTIC 
  FAMILIES. 
  

  

  headwaters 
  of 
  that 
  stream. 
  They 
  appear 
  nol 
  to 
  have 
  reached 
  the 
  

   Columbia 
  River, 
  being 
  cut 
  off 
  by 
  tribes 
  of 
  the 
  Chinookan 
  family, 
  

   and 
  consequently 
  were 
  not 
  met 
  by 
  Lewis 
  and 
  Clarke, 
  whose 
  state- 
  

   ments 
  lit' 
  their 
  habitat 
  were 
  derived 
  solely 
  from 
  natives. 
  

  

  PRINCIPAL 
  TRIBES 
  

  

  Ahantchuyuk 
  Calapooya. 
  Yamil. 
  

  

  (Pudding 
  River 
  Chelamela. 
  Yonkalla 
  (Ayankeld). 
  

  

  Indians). 
  Lakmiut. 
  

  

  Atfalati. 
  Santiam. 
  

  

  Population. 
  — 
  So 
  far 
  as 
  known 
  the 
  surviving 
  Indians 
  of 
  this 
  family 
  

   are 
  all 
  at 
  the 
  Grande 
  Ronde 
  Agency, 
  Oregon. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  is 
  a 
  census 
  for 
  1890: 
  

   Atfalati 
  28 
  Santiain 
  27 
  

  

  Calapooya 
  22 
  

  

  Lakmiut 
  29 
  

  

  Maw's 
  River 
  28 
  

  

  Yamil 
  30 
  

  

  Yonkalla 
  7 
  

  

  Total 
  171 
  

  

  KARANKAWAN 
  FAMILY. 
  

  

  = 
  Karankawa, 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  Globus, 
  xlix, 
  No. 
  8, 
  123, 
  1886 
  (vocabulary 
  of 
  25 
  terms; 
  

   distinguished 
  as 
  a 
  family 
  provisionally). 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  Science, 
  414, 
  April 
  9, 
  

   1887. 
  

  

  The 
  Karankawa 
  formerly 
  dwelt 
  upon 
  the 
  Texan 
  coast, 
  according 
  

   to 
  Sibley, 
  upon 
  an 
  island 
  or 
  peninsula 
  in 
  the 
  Bay 
  pf 
  St. 
  Bernard 
  

   (Matagorda 
  Bay). 
  In 
  1804 
  this 
  author, 
  upon 
  hearsay 
  evidence, 
  

   stated 
  their 
  number 
  to 
  be 
  500 
  men.' 
  In 
  several 
  places 
  in 
  the 
  paper 
  

   cited 
  it 
  is 
  explicitly 
  stated 
  that 
  the 
  Karankawa 
  spoke 
  the 
  Attakapa 
  

   language; 
  the 
  Attakapa 
  was 
  a 
  coast 
  tribe 
  living 
  to 
  the 
  east 
  of 
  them. 
  

   In 
  1884 
  Mr. 
  Gatschet 
  found 
  a 
  Tonka 
  we 
  at 
  Fort 
  Griffin, 
  Texas, 
  who 
  

   claimed 
  to 
  have 
  formerly 
  lived 
  among 
  the 
  Karankawa. 
  From 
  him 
  

   a 
  vocabulary 
  of 
  twenty-five 
  terms 
  was 
  obtained, 
  which 
  was 
  all 
  of 
  

   the 
  language 
  he 
  remembered. 
  

  

  The 
  vocabulary 
  is 
  unsatisfactory, 
  not 
  only 
  because 
  of 
  its 
  meager- 
  

   ness, 
  but 
  because 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  terms 
  are 
  unimportant 
  for 
  comparison. 
  

   Nevertheless, 
  such 
  as 
  it 
  is, 
  it 
  represents 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  language 
  that 
  is 
  

   extant. 
  Judged 
  by 
  this 
  vocabulary 
  the 
  language 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  dis- 
  

   tinct 
  not 
  only 
  from 
  the 
  Attakapa 
  but 
  from 
  all 
  others. 
  Unsatisfac- 
  

   tory 
  as 
  the 
  linguistic 
  evidence 
  is. 
  it 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  safer 
  to 
  class 
  the 
  

   language 
  provisionally 
  as 
  a 
  distinct 
  family 
  upon 
  the 
  strength 
  of 
  it 
  

   than 
  to 
  accept 
  Sibley's 
  statement 
  of 
  its 
  identity 
  with 
  Attakapa, 
  

   especially 
  as 
  we 
  know 
  nothing 
  of 
  the 
  extent 
  of 
  his 
  information 
  or 
  

   whether 
  indeed 
  his 
  statement 
  was 
  based 
  upon 
  a 
  personal 
  knowledge 
  

   of 
  the 
  language. 
  

  

  1 
  Am. 
  State 
  Papers, 
  1832, 
  vol. 
  4. 
  p. 
  722. 
  

  

  