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LILLOOET LINGUISTIC FAMILIES 



[b. a. e. 



Chin Nation. — Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, v, 173, 1855. 

 Lillooet.— Can, Ind. Aff. Rep. 1889, 115, 1890. 

 Lilowat— Gibbsin Cont. N. A. Ethnol., I, 268, 1877. 

 Loquilt Indians.— Mayno, Brit. Col,, '209, ]S6'2. 

 Sclavthamuk— ISrit. ('"I. uiaii, Iii'l. AIT., ^'i•■l(lri:l, 



LILLOOET MAN. (am. Mus. Nat. Hist.) 



1872. Sta'-tlum-ooh. — Dawson in Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Can., sec. 11. 5, 1891. Stetlum.— Survey raap,"llydr. 

 Office, U.S. N.. 1882. Stlat-limuh.— ALk ka\ quoted 

 by Dawson in Trans. Roy. Soc. C m i( i 1^ '1 sec. 



LILLOOET WOMAN. (am. Mus. Nat. HiST. ) 



II, 5. StIa'tliumH.— Boas m 5tli Rep. N. W. Tribes 

 Can., 10, 1889 (own name). Stla'tliumQ.— Boas in 

 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 80, 1890. Stla'tlumQ.— 

 Boas as quoted by Daw.son in Trans. Roy. Soc. 

 Can. for 1891, see. ii, 5. 



Lillooet. A band and town of Upper 

 Lillooet on Fraser r., where it is joined 

 )jy Cayoosh cr. The Canadian Reports 

 on Indian Affairs give two divisions of the 

 Lillooet band, of which one numbered 57 

 and the other 6 in 1904. 



Lillooet.— Can. Ind. AfT. Rep., pt. ll, 72, 1902. 

 SEtL.— Teit in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 172, 

 1900 (native name of the village of Lillooet). 



Lilmalche ( Lemd'tha) . One of the two 

 Cowichan tribes on Thetis id., off the s. e. 

 coast of Vancouver id. ; pop. 19 in 190-1. 

 (liven as a band of the Penelakut (q. v.) 

 by the Canadian Indian Office. 

 Lema'^/ca.— Boas, MS., B. A. E., 18S7. Lilmalche.— 

 Ci';n.Ind.AfI.forl901,pt. II, 101. Ll-mache.— Ibid., 

 1897,302,1898. Ll-mal-che.— Ibid., 1898, 417. Llmal- 

 ches.— Il>id., 1.S83, 190. 



Lilshiknom. A branch of the Yuki who 

 lived on the w. bank of Eel r., a short 

 distance below the junction of Middle fork 

 and South Eel r., n. Cal. (a. l. k. ) 



Lincoln Island. An island in Penobscot 

 r. , ]Me. , near Lincoln, 37 ni. aboveOldtown, 

 occupied by about 30 Penobscot Indians. 

 Lincoln. — So called bv the whites. Uadnaguk. — 

 Gatschet, Penobscot MS., B. A. E., 1887 (Penob- 

 scot name). 



Linguistic families. The linguistic di- 

 versity of the Indians is perhaps the most 

 remarkable feature of American ethnolo- 

 gy. While certain general features, such, 

 for example, as incorporation, use of verb 

 and pronoun, employment of generic par- 

 ticles, use of nongrammatical genders, 

 etc., usually occur, most of the languages 

 of the New World exhiljit analogies jus- 

 tifying their classification, on psychic 

 grounds at least, as a single family of 

 speech; nevertheless, the comparison of 

 their vocabularies leads to the recognition 

 of the existence of a large number of lin- 

 guistic families or stocks having lexically 

 no resemblance to or connection with each 

 other. Boas (Science, xxiii, 644, 1906) is 

 of the opinion, however, that, considering 

 the enormous differences in the psycho- 

 logical bases of morphology in American 

 Indian languages, such psychic unity in 

 one family of sjieech can hardly be predi- 

 cated with confidence. Also, it may be 

 that the Paleo- Asiatic languages of Siberia 

 may perhaps belong v;ith the American 

 tongues. This linguistic diversity was per- 

 ceived and commented on by some of the 

 early Spanish historians and other writers 

 on American subjects, such as Hervas, 

 Barton, and Adelung; but the "founder 

 of systematic philology relating to the 

 North American Indians " (in the words 

 of Powell) was Albert Gallatin, whose 

 Synopsis of the Indian Tribes within the 

 United States East of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains and in the British and Russian Pos- 

 sessions in North America was published 

 in 1836 in the Transactions and Collections 

 of the American Antiquarian Society ( Ar- 

 chneologia Americana, ii), of Worcester, 

 Mass. The jirogress of research and of 

 linguistic cartography since Gallatin's 



