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ETCHEEIDIEGOTTINE ETHENELDELI 



them and bear a like reputation for timid- 

 ity, probably comprehended under the 

 name Awokanak by the Cree, began their 

 northerly migration at the same time, 

 probably under the same impulsion (Peti- 

 tot, La Mer Glaciale, 292, 1 887 ) . Petitot 

 found among them a variety of physiog- 

 nomy that he ascribed to a mixture of 

 races. Many of the males are circumcised 

 in infancy; those who are not are called 

 dogs, not opprobriously, but rather affec- 

 tionately. The bands or divisions are 

 Eleidlinottine, Etchaottine, Etcheridie- 

 gottine, Etechesottine, Klodesseottine, 

 and Desnedeyarelottine (Petitot, Autour 

 dulac des Esclaves, 863, 1891). In his 

 monograph on the Dene-Dindjie, Petitot 

 restricted the term to the Etcheridiegot- 

 tine, whom he distinguished from the 

 Slaves proper, making the latter a separate 

 tribe with divisions at Hay r. , Great Slave 

 lake, Horn mts., the fork of the Macken- 

 zie, and Ft Norman. 



A-cha'-o-tin-ne. — Morgan, Consang. and Affin., 

 289, 1871 ( trans. ' people of the lowlands ' ) . Acheo- 

 tenne. — Morgan in N. Am. Rev., 58, 1870. A-che- 

 to-e-ten-ni. — Ross, MS. notes on Tinne, B. A. E. 

 Acheto-e-Tinne. — Kennicott, MS. vocab., B. A. E. 

 Acheto-tena. — Dall, Alaska, 429, 1870. Achoto-e- 

 tenni.— Pope, MS. Sicanny vocab., B. A. E., 1865. 

 A-tsho-to-ti-na. — Dawson in Rep. Geol. Surv.Can., 

 1887-88, 200 B, 1889. Awokanak.— Petitot, La Mer 

 Glaciale, 293, 1887 ('slaves': Cree name). Brush- 

 wood Indians. — Franklin, Journ. to Polar Sea, n,87, 

 1824. Cheta-ut-tdinne. — Richardson, Arct. Exped., 

 II, 7, IS'il, Dane Esclaves. — Petitot, Autour du lac 

 des Esclaves, 2S9, 1S91. Danites Esclaves.— Ibid., 

 305. Edchautawoot. — Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, 

 II, 27, 1852. Edchawtawhoot dinneh. — Franklin, 

 Journ. to Polar Sea, 262, 1S24. Edchawtawhoot tin- 

 neh. — Tanner, Narr., 293, 1830. Edchawtawoot. — 

 Gallatin in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc, ii, 19, 1836. 

 Edshawtawoots. — Sclioolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 542, 

 1853. Esclaves. — Petitot, Autour du lac des Es- 

 claves, 363, 1891. Etchape-ottine. — Petitot, Diet. 

 Dent^-DindjiiJ, xx, 1876. Etsh-tawut-dinni, — La- 

 tham in Trans. Philol. Soc. Lond., 69, 1856 (trans. 

 ' thickwood-men ' ). Slave Indians. — Hooper, 

 Tents of Tuski, 303, 1853. Slaves.— Petitot, Autour 

 du lac des Esclaves, 363, 1891 (English form). 

 Slavey. — Ross, MS. notes on Tinne, B. A. E. (so 

 called by fur-traders). 



Etcheridiegottine ( ' people of the rap- 

 ids'). An Etchareottine division which 

 hunt along Liard r. and neighboring 

 regions to the border of the Etchaottine 

 country near old Ft Halkett, British 

 America. They have intermarried with 

 the Etchaottine and with theTsattine in 

 the s., and have absorbed their manners 

 and customs and adopted their dialectal 

 forms to such a degree that they have 

 been frequently confounded with the one 

 tribe or the other. 



Bastard Beaver Indians. — Ross in Smithson. Rep. 

 1866, 308, 1872. Beaver.— Franklin, Journ. to Polar 

 Sea, 262, 1824. Erettchi-ottine.— Dawson in 

 Rep. Geol. Surv. Can., 1887-88, 200b, 1889 ('peo- 

 ple of the rapids': Kawchodinneh name). Et- 

 tcheri-die-Gottine. — Petitot, Autour du lac des 

 Esclaves, 363, 3891. Liards Indians.— Ross quoted 

 by Gibbs, MS., B. A. E. Liard Slaves.— Pope, MS. 

 Sicanny vocab., B. A. E, 1S65. Ndu-tcho-ottinne. — 

 Dawson, op. cit. Sceth-tessesay-tinneh. — Ross 

 quoted by Gibbs, MS., B. A. E. (people of the 

 mountain river' ). Slave Indians of Ft. Liard. — Ross, 

 MS. notes on Tinne, B. A. E. Strong bow. — Mac- 



kenzie in Mass. Hist. Coll.,2ds., 11,43, 1814. Tsilla- 

 ta-ut' tine. — Richardson quoted by Petitot, Diet. 

 Denfe-Dindjit", xx, 1876. Tsilla-ta-ut'-tinne.— Rich- 

 ardson, Arct. Exped., ii, 6, 1851. Tsillawadoot. — 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, ii, 28, 1852. Tsillaw- 

 awdoot. — Gallatin in Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc, ii, 

 19, 1836. Tsillaw-awdut-dinni.— Latham in Trans. 

 Philol. Soc. Lond., 69, 1856 (trans.: ' bush-wimd- 

 men ' ) . Tsillawdawhoot-dinneh. — Fran k 1 i 1 1 , J i mrn . 

 to Polar Sea, ll, 87, 1824. Tsillawdawhoot Tinneh.— 

 Bancroft, Nat. Races, i, 145, 1882. 



Etechesottine ( ' horn mountain peo- 

 ple'). A division of the Etchareottine 

 occupying the country between Great 

 Slave and La Martre lakes, Mackenzie 

 Ter., Can. Franklin erroneously con- 

 sidered them Thlingchadinneh. 

 Deerhorn mountaineers. — Franklin, Narr., ll, 181, 

 1824. £te-ches-ottine.— Petitot in Bull. Soc. de 

 Geog. Paris, chart, 1875. Gens de la montagne la 

 Come.— Petitot, Diet. Dt'ne-DindjiiJ, xx, 1876. 

 Horn Mountain Indians. — Franklin, Narr., 260, L 24. 



Etheneldeli ('caribou-eaters'). An 

 Athapascan tribe living e. of L. Caribou 

 and L. Athabasca, in the barren grounds 

 which extend to Hudson bay (Petitot, 

 Diet. Dene-Dindjie, xx, 1876) . Franklin 

 (Journ. Polar Seas, ir, 241, 1824) placed 

 them between Athabasca and Great 

 Slave lakes and Churchill r. , whence 

 they resorted to Ft Chipewyan. Ross 

 (MS., B. A. E. ) makes them a part of the 

 eastern Tinne, their habitat being to the 

 N. and E. of the head of L. Athabasca, 

 extending to the end of Great Slave lake. 

 Rocky r. separates them from the Tatsa- 

 nottine. In the e, are the barren 

 grounds to which they resort every year 

 to hunt the caribou, which supplies 

 practically all their needs. They were 

 a part of the migrating Chipewyan who 

 descended from the Rocky mts. and 

 advanced eastward from Peace r. to dis- 

 pute the Hudson bay region with the 

 Maskegon and Cree. One of their women 

 who was held in captivity by the Maske- 

 gon was astonished at the weapons, uten- 

 sils, and clothing of European manufac- 

 ture that she saw among her captors, who 

 told her that they made these articles 

 themselves. Finding at last that they 

 got them in barter for furs at Ft Prince 

 of Wales, she made her escape to the 

 English and told them of her own people 

 on Peace r. who held the choicest furs 

 cheap. The British traders, eager to ex- 

 tend their- trade, sent her with a safe 

 conduct to her people, whom she per- 

 suaded U) migrate to the barren grounds 

 near Hudson bay, where caribou were 

 abundant. They settled around Rein- 

 deer, Big, and North Indian lakes, and 

 were called the Northern Indians by the 

 English and the Mangeurs de Caribou x 

 by the Canadian French, while the neigh- 

 boring tribes called them by the same 

 name that they had given to the English, 

 Men of the Stone House. Hearne saw 

 them in 1769 and Petitot found them 

 there still a centurv later, numbering 

 900. About 300 traded at Ft Fond du 



