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THLINAITSHTIK THLHSTGOHADIKNE 



[b. a. 



plel'-qus. — Dorsev in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 229, 

 1890. 



Thlinaitslitik. A Yaquina village on 

 the s. side of Yaquina r., Oreg. 

 91i-nai'-ctlk.— Dorsey in Jour. Am. Folk-lore, in, 

 229, 1890. 



Thlingchadinne ('dog-flank people'). 

 An Athapascan tribe or group of tribes. 

 Their habitat, according to Dobbs (1744), 

 was on Sealr., in the muskox country. 

 They did not trade with the French be- 

 cause they were afraid to go through the 

 territory of the hostile Maskegon. La 

 Potherie in 1753 located them at the 

 sources of Churchill r. Jefferys in 1761 

 placed them near Hudson bay n. of their 

 foes, the Maskegon. Franklin in 1824 

 found them between the Tatsanottine 

 country and Mackenzie r. Back (1835) 

 said that they were in the barren lands 

 about Great Slave lake. Dunn (1844) 

 gave their habitat as Mackenzie r. and 

 Great Bear lake. According to Richard- 

 eon ( 1851 ) they occupied the inland coun- 

 try, E. of the Kawchodinne, from L. La 

 Martre to Coppermine r. Hind in 1863 

 located them about the n. and n. e. parts 

 of Great Slave lake, resorting to Ft Eaeand 

 Ft Simpson. Petitot(Dict. Dene Dindjie, 

 XX, 1876) gave their habitat as being be- 

 tween Great Slave and Great Bear lakes, e. 

 of Mackenzie r., extending as far as Cop- 

 permine r. Expelled from their pristine 

 home by their Cree enemies, they have 

 migrated continuously northward during 

 two centuries. Franklin, Dease, and 

 Simpson found them n. and n. e. of Great 

 Bear lake between 1819 and 1836. Since 

 then they have returned to some of the 

 southern districts. Petitot found Great 

 Slave lake their extreme southern limit. 



According to a fable told by the Chipe- 

 wyan, Tatsanottine, and Kawchodinne, 

 as well as by the Thlingchadinne them- 

 selves, the tril^e originated from the union 

 of a supernatural dog-man with a Tinne 

 woman. After the discovery of copper 

 by a Tatsanottine woman another woman 

 of the same tribe was dwelling with her 

 two brothers n. of Great Slave lake. One 

 day a strong and handsome stranger ar- 

 rived, who, on the proposal of the broth- 

 ers, took her for his wife. Waking in the 

 middle of the wedding night she found 

 her husband gone and heard an animal 

 crunching bones at the fireplace. ( There 

 were nodogsthen amongtheTatsanottine; 

 Franklin found them without these ani- 

 mals in 1820. ) The same thing happened 

 the next night. The bride and her broth- 

 ers lighted torches, but found no animal. 

 On the third night one of the brothers 

 hurled a stone ax into the corner whence 

 the noise of gnawing proceeded. A cry 

 of agony was heard, and when a torch 

 was lighted a great black dog was seen 

 twitching in the death throes. As the 

 human husband did not reappear, the 



brothers chased forth their sister because 

 she had married a dog-man, a sorcerer, a 

 Tlingit. She wandered into the treeless 

 desert of Coppermine r., where in the 

 course of time she brought forth a litter 

 of puppies, which she kept hidden in a bag 

 of reindeer skin. When they could run 

 alone she was astonished to find on her 

 return from hunting, prints of infants' feet 

 in the ashes. Hiding one day, she saw 

 the little dogs leap from the bag, becom- 

 ing handsome children as soon as they 

 reached the light. She ran and pulled 

 the string of the bag, but not before three 

 succeeded in jumping back into the dark 

 hole. Two boys and two girls were kept 

 forcibly in the daylight, and these be- 

 came the progenitors of the Thlingcha- 

 dinne (Petitot, Autour du Lac des Es- 

 claves, 296, 1891). 



Ross (MS., B. A. E. ) states that adjoin- 

 ing the Tatsanottine are the Dog-ribs, 

 whose lands extend from Coppermine r. 

 to the s. e. side of Great Bear lake and 

 to about midway between L. La Martre 

 and Mackenzie r. In the latter tract they 

 are much intermingled with the Etcha- 

 reottine, from whom they can scarcely 

 be distinguished except by their larger 

 stature and their thick, stuttering, and dis- 

 agreeable manner of enunciation. Petitot 

 describes them as tall and well built, of a 

 bronze or terra-cotta color, nervous of 

 temperament, their hands and feet small 

 and well modeled, the chest wide and 

 deep, with black hair and eyes, heavy 

 eyelids, a sad and reserved look, large 

 mouths, full lips, furnished with slender 

 moustaches on the men, sometimes ac- 

 companied by thin beards, their coun- 

 tenances having a peculiar Egj'ptian cast. 

 The same author (Bull. Soc. G6og. Paris, 

 chart, 1875 ) divides them into Takf welot- 

 tine, Lintchanre, Tseottine, and Tsan- 

 tieottine. The Thlingchadinne subsist 

 chiefly on the reindeer. They are said 

 to treat their women and dogs with more 

 kindness and consideration than do the 

 Chipewyan tribes. The father loses his 

 name on the birth of a child and is there- 

 after known as the father of so-and-so, 

 the child. Other tribes of this group have 

 the same custom, but these people change 

 the name after the birth of every child, 

 while an unmarried man is called the 

 father of his favorite dog. Ross in 1858 

 gave their population as 926, of whom 533 

 were men and 393 were women; of this 

 number 23 were found at Ft Resolution 

 on Great Slave lake, 150 at Ft Simpson, 

 and 133 at Ft Norman. Father Morice in 

 1906 gave the total number of Dog-ribs 

 as 1,150. 



Atticmospicayes.— La Potherie, Hist, de I'Am^r., i, 

 168, 1753. Attimospiquaies.— Ibid., 177 (trans. 

 ' dog-ribs ' )^. Attimospiquais. — Dobbs, Hudson 

 Bav, 44, 1744. Attimospiquay.— Ibid., 25 (trans, 

 'coast of dogs'). (Jhien-Flancs.— Petitot, Autour 



