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YAK0-GITINAI — YAKWAL 



985 



1880 (corrupted form). Yak!".— Swanton. Cont. 

 Haida, 281, 1905. Yukh.— Deans, Talcs from Hi- 

 derj-, 94, l,s99. 



Yaku-gitinai ( YiVhi (/dina'-), 'the mid- 

 dle Giti^ns'). A subdivision of the 

 Hlgahet-gitinai, a Haida family of the 

 Eagle clan. They received their name 

 from having lived in the middle of Skide- 

 gate village; there they killed a chief 

 and fled to the \v. coast.-— Swan ton, Cont. 

 Haida, 274, 1905. 



Yaku-lanas( YiVku Id^nas, 'middle-town 

 people'). A large and important Haida 

 family ))el(^nging to the Raven clan. By 

 the Skidegate people it is said they 

 were so named because they occupied 

 the middle row in a legendary tive- 

 row town, where all the Raven side for- 

 merly lived (see Skeiid). The Masset 

 people attributed it to the fact that 

 wherever the members of this family 

 settled they occupied the middle of the 

 village. They are said to have come 

 originally from the s. end of Queen 

 Charlotte ids., but the greater part finally 

 moved to Alaska, where they constituted 

 the most important Raven family among 

 the Kaigani. One subdivision, the Ao- 

 yaku-lnagai, settled in Masset inlet. Of 

 the Kaigani part of the family there were 4 

 subdivisions, the Kaad-naas-hadai, Yehl- 

 naas-hadai, Skistlai-nai-hadai, and Na- 

 kaduts-hadai. The extinct Ta-ahl-lanas 

 of North id. perhaps belonged to it. Be- 

 fore they left Queen Charlotte ids. their 

 principal town was Dadens. In Alaska 

 it was Klinkwan. The Hlgahet-gu-lanas 

 are said to have once been a part of this 

 family. — Swanton,Cont. Haida, 271, 1905. 

 Yak' li,'nas. — Boas, V2i.h Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 

 22, 1898. Yakwu Lennas. — Harrison in Proc. Roy. 

 See. Can., sec. ll. 125, 1895. 



Yakutat. A Tlingit tribe centering 

 around the bay of tne same name, but 

 extending northward to Copper r. and 

 southward to Dry bay, Alaska. Pop. 

 826 in 1.S80, 436 in 1890. Their ])rincipal 

 winter town is Yakutat. According to a 

 contributor to The Alaskan, the town on 

 Dry bay is called Satah. Emmons con- 

 siders the Dry bay and Chilkat (Con- 

 troller bay) Indians as distinct divisions. 

 A summer village near ( 'opper r. is named 

 Chilkat, and Gonaho, Gutheni, and Illa- 

 hayik are the names of former towns. 

 Social divisions are Ganahadi, Kashke- 

 koan, Koskedi, and Tekoedi. (.i. r. s.) 

 Chlach-a-jek.— Krause, Tlinkit Ind., 98, 1885. Jak" 

 huthath. — Holmberg, Elthnog. Skizz., map, IVl- 

 18.55. Jakutat.— Prichard, Plivs. Hist. Man., v, 370' 

 1847. Jakutat-kon.— Krause, Tlinkit Ind., 116, 1855- 

 Klahinks.— Colyer(1869) in Ind. AIT. Rep., 535, 1870- 

 tahayi'kqoan. — Swanton, field-notes, B. A. E- 

 (iisual name applied by themselves). Thlar-har 

 yeek-gwan. — Emmons in Mem. Am. Mus. Nat- 

 Hist., ni, 230, 1903. Yahkutats.— Elliott, Cond- 

 AfT. Alaska, 30, 1874. Yakutats.— Dall in Proc- 

 Am. A. A. S. 18G9, xvill, 209, 1870. Yaku- 

 tatskoe. — Veniaminoff, Zapiski, n, pt. iii, 29, 1840. 

 Yucatats.— Mahoney in Ind. AfT. Rep. 1809, 575, 

 1870. 



Yakutat. The principal town of the 

 Yakutat tribe on the bay of the same 

 name in Alaska. Pop. 300 in 1890. • 

 Yak"da't.— Swanton, field notes, B. A. E., 1904. 



TAr PHIEST 



Yakwal ('drifted ones,' from ydkwand, 

 ' I am carried off 1)y water' ). A tribe tra- 

 ditionally found by the Tonkawa on the 

 Gulf coast near Galveston, Texas. They 



