ILNGUISTIG FAMILIES ON THE I'ACIFIC SLOPE. xlv 



The Shoshoni family extends through eastern Oregon, Nevada, southern 

 Idaho, Utah, parts of Wyoming and California, and embodies the tribes of 

 the Snake Indians, the Shoshoni, from whom the Comanches separated 

 centuries ago, the Paviotso and Bannok (Panaiti), the Pai-uta, Uta, Moki, 

 and the Kawuya branch of California. This family occupies an area almost 

 as large as the Selish stock, but the population is very thinly scattered over 

 the vast territory of the inland basin. 



Washo Indians, near Carson, Nevada, inclosed on all sides except on 

 the west by Shoshoni tribes. 



Selish Indians occupy Washington, portions of the Oregon coast and of 

 Vancouver Island, northern Idaho (from which they extend into Montana), 

 the Fraser River Valley, and the adjoining coast of British Columbia. Some 

 dialects of this family are remarkable through a profusion of consonantic 

 clusters. Chinook dialects show many Selish affinities. 



Sahaptin family, dwelling around middle Columbia and Lower Snake 

 Kiver. An offshoot of it — the Warm Spring Indians — settled in Des Chutes 

 Valley, Oregon. 



Wayih'tpu is a Sahaptin name given to the Kayuse people on the 

 Yumatilla Reservation, which has abandoned its former tongue, called the 

 "Old Kayuse," to adopt the Yumatilla dialect of Sahaptin. Molale is 

 related to old Kayuse; its former area was east of Oregon City. 



Tinne or Athapashcm tribes, wherever they ap})ear near the Pacific coast, 

 are intruders from the northern plains around Mackenzie River and the head- 

 waters of the upper Yukon. Those still existing on the Pacific coast are the 

 Umpqua and Rogue River, the Hupa and Wailaki Indians, whei'eas the 

 Tlatskanai and Kwalhioqua have disappeared. 



The following three families on and near the Oregon coast were explored 

 by Rev. Owen J. Dorsey in 1884 (Amer. Antiquarian, 1885, pp. 41, 42): 



Ydktvina, subdivided into Als!', Yakwina on the bay of the same name, 

 Ki'i-itch on the Lower Umpqua River, and Sayusla. 



Kits, Coos Indians on Coos Bay and Mulluk on Lower Coquille 

 River. 



Taktlmu or Takelma Indians, south of the Kus, on middle course of 

 Rogue River. 



