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KUTEKAl 



[b. a. b. 



and "Lame Knee," suggesting Old World 

 analogies. The story of the man in the 

 moon is probably borrowed from French 

 sources. 



While few evidences of their artistic 

 ability in the way of pictograj^hs, birch- 

 bark drawings, etc., have been reported, 

 the Kutenai are no mean draftsmen. 

 Some of them possess an idea of map 

 making and have a good sense of the 

 physical features of the country. Some 

 of their drawings of the horse and the 

 buffalo are characteristically lifelike and 

 quite accurate. The ornamentation of 

 their moccasins and other articles, the 

 work of the women, is often elaborate, 

 one of the motives of their decorative 

 art being the Oregon grape. They do 

 not seem to have made pottery, nor to 

 have indulged in wood carving to a large 

 extent. The direct contact of the Kute- 

 nai with the whites is comparatively re- 

 cent. Their word for white man, Siiy- 

 iipi, is identical with the Nez Perce 

 Sueapo (Parker, Jour., 381, 1840), and 

 is probably borrowed. Otherwise the 

 white man is called Niitlu^qene, 'stran- 

 ger.' They have had few serious troub- 

 les with the whites, and are not now a 

 warlike people. As yet the Canadian 

 Kutenai are not reservation Indians. The 

 United 'States seems to have made no di- 

 rect treaty with the tribe for the exting- 

 uishment of their territorial rights (Eoyce 

 in 18th Rep. B. A. E., 856). 



Within the Kutenai area, on the Co- 

 lumbia lakes, live a colony of Shushwap 

 (Salishan) known as Kinbaskets, num- 

 bering 56 in 1904. In that year the Ku- 

 tenai in British territory were reported to 

 number 553, as follows: Lower Columbia 

 Lake, 80; Lower Kutenai (Flatbow), 172; 

 St Mary's (FtSteele), 216; Tobacco Plains, 

 61; Arrow Lake (West Kutenai), 24. 

 These returns indicate a decrease of about 

 150 in 13 years. The United States cen- 

 sus of 1890 gave the number of Kutenai 

 in Idaho and Montana as 400 to 500; in 

 1905 those under the Flathead agency, 

 Mont., were reported to number 554. 

 The Kutenai have given their name to 

 Kootenai r., the districts of East, West, 

 and North Kootenay, Brit. Col., Kootenai 

 lake, Brit. Col., Kootanie pass in the 

 Rocky mts., Kootenai co. and the town 

 of Kootenai, Idaho, and to other places 

 on both sides of the international boun- 

 dary (Am. Anthrop., iv, 348-350, 1902). 



Consult Boas, First Gen. Rep. on the 

 Inds. of Brit. Col. in Rep. B. A. A. S.,1889; 

 Chamberlain, Rep. on the Kootenaj'Inds. 

 in Rep. B. A. A. S., 1892, also various 

 articles by the same author since 1892 

 in Am. Anthrop., Jour. Am. Folk-lore, 

 and Am. Antiq.; Hale in U. S. Expl. Ex- 

 ped., VI, 1846; Maclean, Canadian Sav- 

 age Folk, 1896 ; Smet ( 1 ) Oregon Missions, 



1847, (2) New Indian Sketches, 1863; Tol- 

 mie and Dawson, Comp. Vocabs. Brit. 

 Col., 1884. (A. y. c.) 



Catanoneaux.— Schermerhorn (1812) in Mass. Hist. 

 Soc. Coll., 2(1 s., II, 42, 1814 (wrongly applied to 

 Piegan; corrupt Indian with French termination). 

 Catawahays,— Moore in Ind. Att'. Rep., 292, 1846, 

 (misprint). Cat-tan-a-haws. — Lewis and Clark, 

 Discov., 57, ISOCj (said to be their own name). 

 Cattanahaws.— Ibid, (so called by the French). 

 Cattanahowes. — Mackenzie, Toy., map, 1801. 

 Cautonee. — Harmon, Jour., map, ]s20. Cautonies. — 

 Ibid., 313. Contamis. — Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes,!, 

 4,'i7, 1851 ( probably a misprint) . Contenay. — Lane in 

 Ind. Aff. Rep., 158, 18.50. Contonnes.— Catlin, N. 

 Am. Ind., passim, 1844 (said to In: French name). 

 Cootanais. — Ross, Advent., 213, ls41). Cootanies. — 

 Parker, Jour., 307, 1840. Cootneys.— Milrov in H. 

 R. Misc. Doc. 122, 43d Cong., 1st sess., 5, 1875. 

 Cootomies. — \A'ilkes, Hist. Oregon, 44, 1845. Coo- 

 tonaikoon. — Henry, MS. vocab., 1808 (so called by 

 the Blackl'eet). Cootonais. — Cox, Advent., II, 75, 

 1831. Cootonay. — Ibid., 1.54. Cootounies. — Rob- 

 ertson, Oregon, 129, 1846. Cotones.— Hind, Red 

 River Exped., ii, 152, 1860. Cottonois.— Irving, 

 Rocky Mts., I, 187, 1837. Counarrha.— Vocabu- 

 laire des Kootenays Counarrha ou Skalza, 1883, 

 cited by Pilling, Proof Sheets, 1885. Coutan- 

 ies.— Hale in U. S. Expl. Exped., vi, 204, 1846. 

 Coutaria.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, Iii, 402, 1853. 

 Coutenay.— Lane (1849) in Sen. Ex. Doc. 52, 3l8t 

 Cong. , 1st sess. , 169, 1850. Coutnees. — Bonner, Life 

 of Beckwourth,226, 18.56. Coutonais. — Maximilian, 

 Trav., 509, 1843. Coutonois.— Pendleton in H. R. 

 Rep. 830, 27th Cong., 2d sess., 21, 1842. Coutouns.— 

 Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 34, 1822. Flatbows. — 

 See Lower Kidcnui. Kattanahaws. — Keane in 

 Stanford, Compend., 470, 1878 (applies to Up- 

 per Kutenai only). Ki'tona'Qa. — Chamberlain, 

 8th Rep. N. W. Tribe.s, 6, 1892. Kit-too-nuh'-a.— 

 Tolmie and Daw.son, Comp. Vocabs., 124b, 1,"-84 

 (applied to Upper Kutenai) . Kituanaha. — School- 

 craft, Ind. Tribes, lli, 402, 1853. Kitunaha.— Hale 

 in U. S. Expl. Exped., VI, 204,535, 1.S46. Kitunana.— 

 Stevens, Rep. on N. Pac. R. R., 440, 1854. 

 Kitunaxa. — Ibid., .535. Kodenees.^ — Meek in H. R. 

 Ex. Doe. 76, 30th Cong., 1st sess., 10, 1848. Koeete- 

 nays. — De Smet, Letters, 170, 1843. Koetenais. — 

 Ibid., 183. Koetenay.— Ibid., 203. Koetinays.— De 

 Smet q\ioted in H. R. Ex. Doe. 65. 36th Cong., 

 1st sess., 141, 1860. Koo-tames. — Gibbs in Pac. 

 R. R. Rep., I, 417, l,s,55. Kootanaise. — Mayne, 

 Brit. Col., 298, 1862. Kootanay.— Tayloi; in Cal. 

 Farmer, Feb. 27,1863. Kootamies.— Stevens in Ind. 

 Aff. Rep., 460, 1854. Kootanie.— Nicolet, Oregon, 

 143, 1846. Kootenai.— Brown in Beach, Ind. Misc., 

 77, 1S77. Kootenaies.— (iibbs in Rep. N. Pac. R. R., 

 437, 18-54. Kootenays.— De Smet, Letters, 37, 1843. 

 Kootenia.— Emerson, Indian Myths, 404, 1884. 

 Kootenuha. — Tolmie and Dawson, Comp. Vocabs., 

 124b, 1.s,s4. Koote-nuha. — Ibid., 5b. Kootones. — 

 Henry (1811 1 (juoted by Maclean, Crfnad. Sav. 

 Folk," 138, 1896. Kootoonais.— Stevens in Ind. 

 Aff. Rep., 461, 1854. Koutaines.— Ibid., 462. Kou- 

 tanis.— Duflot de Mofras, Kxplor., II, 173, 1844. 

 Koutonais.— H. R. Rep. 98, 42d Cong., 3d se.ss., 429, 

 1873. Kuspelu.— Gatschet, MS., B. A. E. (Nez 

 Perc6 name: 'water people'). Kutana'. — Maxi- 

 milian, Reise,ii, 511, 1841. Kutanas. — Maximilian, 

 Trav., 242,1843. Kutani.— Latham, Elem. Comp. 

 Philol., 305, 1862. Kutanis.— Latham, Nat. Hist. 

 Man, 316, 1850. Kutenae.— Maclean, Canad. Sav. 

 Folk, 137, 1896 (Siksika name: sing., Kutenaek- 

 wan). Kutenai.— Mason in Rep. Nat. Mus.1899, 529, 

 1901. Kutenay.— Brinton, Amer. Race, 108, 1891. 

 Kutneha'.— Maxrnilian, Reise, II, 511, 1841. Kut- 

 nehas.— Maximilian, Trav., 242, 1843. Kvitona.— 

 Havden, Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. Val., 256, 1862. 

 Kutonaoha.— Maximilian, Trav., .500, 1843. Kuto- 

 na'qa,— Boas, .5th Rep. N. VV. Tribes, 10, 1889. 

 Kutonas.— Maximilian, Trav,, 245, 1843. Skaisi. — 

 Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, map, 200, 1853. 

 Skalza.— Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., i, 416, 1855. 

 Skalzi.— DeSmet Letter.^, 224, 18-13, Skalzy.— 

 Ibid,, 203, Skelsa-ulk.— Gatschet, MS,, B. A. E. 

 (Sali-sh name: 'water people'). Skolsa. — Gibbs 

 in Pac. R. R. Rep., i, 416, 1855. 



