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ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND NOMENCLATURE OF THE NATIVE 

 TRIBES OF ALASKA AND THE ADJACENT TERRITORY. 



With a Map. 



BY AV. H. -DAJIjJ^. 



The information contained in this article forms a suunnary of 

 in^•c.stig•ations which I liave pursuetl since 18C5, Avliile engaged in duties 

 Avhich took me, at one lime or another, to nearly the whole of the coast 

 herein mentioned and over u considerable jiortion of the interior. As a 

 digest of the present state of tiur knowledge in regard to the tribal and ter- 

 ritorial boundaries of these people, it may form a not untitting appendix or 

 supplement to the gi-eat mass of similar information in relation to nK»re 

 southern tribes, which is by lu) means tlie least among the many I'esults 

 obtained during the ])rogress of the United tStates (Geographical and 

 Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region under tlie direction 

 of Prof J. W. Powell. 



The accompanying map, in addition to attbrding the ethnological 

 information for which it Avas compiled, has also been brought up to date 

 geographicall}', and thus presents, far more fullv than an}- other extant, the 

 latest and best data in regard to the geography of the region rej^resented. 

 The names of tribes of Oi'arian stock are in leaning letters, those of the 

 various Indian tribes are in upright lettering. The investigations from \\hich 

 the ethnological features are derived were concluded in the summer of 1874. 

 It is probable that, with the exception of the interior tribes of Indians, the 

 tribal and territorial limits assigned will require but little future revision. 



