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II.— UNUNG'UN. 



Aleuts, 

 a. Eastern or Unalaslikaus, 



h. Western or Atkans, 



of wliicli belonged to the eastern division 707 



to the middle division 940 



to the Pribiloff Islands 337 



to the western division* 470 



In all about 2,450 people, in 1871, nearly equally divided 



between males and females. There were in that year 44 



births, and 57 deaths, mostly from asthma and pleurisy. 



Total approximate Orarian population 14,054 



INDIAN TRIBES. 



The Indian tribes of Alaska and the adjacent region may be divided 

 into two groixps, with possibly a third, which just impinges on the southern 

 border of the Territory. These groups are: 



I.-TINNEH.t 



^ Tht'nvh, Keunicolt, Harilisty, Ross aud Gibbs, Uall 1. c. 



= Thiiaina, Holmbei!^. 



= Eenaher, Holmberg. 



= Chippeivijans of authors. 



^= Alhahascans of authors, Lndewiij, &c. 



* There are also a number of Aleuts, chitfly Atkans, living on the Commander's Islands in Enssiaa 

 territory. 



tin his paper in the Bulletin of the Paris Geographical Society for September, 1875,Father Petitot 

 discusses the terms Alltaiaskajts, Cliippeinatjans, Montagnais, and Tinneh as applied to this group of Indi- 

 ans, and in several cases falls into serious error, apparently from want of familiarity vith the literature 

 of the subject, which has of late years assumed such imwieldy proportions. lie is in special error in 

 regard to the term " liiivih ". This he erroneously derives from a verb, " osttis, je fats ", and writes oHntie. 

 It is indeed strange that he should not have recognized in " tinnth" a direct derivation, or, more properly, 

 a correct orthography (for the western tribes, at least), of the word ho does adopt, namely, "Dene", 

 meaning " lamUmen ", as a German would say, the o being merely an inserted euphonic. He takes " Di5u(5", 

 " people of the country ", and " diuiljie " (correctly, livjcc), (he Kutchin word for " a man ", and comi^ounds 

 them into a term for designating all the Tinneh tribes, and then goes entirely ctf the track to seek a 

 derivation for Tinneh which is identical with his De'ni as correctly ■i^ritten. Hardisty, Ross, Keunicolt, 

 and Gibbs are sufficient authority for the true meaning of the word, leaving my own personal and pretty 

 conclusive investigations out of account. There can be no manner of doubt as to the woid " tinneh" and 

 its representative term " Kutchin", meaning " people native to the legion" respectively indicaled by its 

 various preii.xes. The erroneous nature of some of the reverend father's statemtnis in regaid to native 

 words is suflicieutly indicated by his tonfusiim of the Eskimo salutation, teymo, or, in the west, vliamti.i, 

 with the word tai/ma, = enough (p. 257, 1. c). 



