iikdu.'ka] THE YUKON TERRITORY 



Indian Sites and Villages Along the Tanana 



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Upper course. — On this much larger part of the river it is possible 

 to report but indirectly. 



A. H. Brooks, in 1898, reports thus on this subject: 13 "Several 

 Indian houses are found on and near the Tanana between the Good- 

 paster and Salchakat and constitute a subgroup of the upper Tanana 

 Indians. * * * The most thickly settled part of the region is 

 along the sluggish portions of the lower Tanana. The largest vil- 

 lages are at the mouth of the Cantwell and Toclat Rivers, and each 

 of these consists of a number of good cabins. In the intervening 

 region there are a number of isolated houses and fishing stations, 

 which are marked on the accompanying map." 



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FlGt'RB 1. — The Tanana River between Nenana and Tanana, with Indian villages 



To which Lieutenant Castner, who explored the upper Tanana, 

 adds the following : 14 " On 750 miles of the Tanana proper and its 

 tributaries I saw seven small hamlets, and not to exceed 100 Indians — 

 men, women, and children." 



From information obtained by me at Fairbanks, at the United 

 States marshal's office and from miners, it appears that the following 

 villages are better known: 



Village, 150 miles east of Fairbanks. 



Mansfield Lake village, 300 miles east of Fairbanks. 



Tetlen, 410 miles east of Fairbanks. 



East Tetlen, 7 miles southeast of Tetlen. 



11 Brooks, A. H., A Reconnaissance in the White and Tanana River Basins, Alaska, in 

 1898 : Twentieth Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Surv., 1900, pt. VII, p. 491. 

 14 Castner, op. cit., p. 706. 



