26 



HuUi' lo-kho-tan' a at Nulato. 

 Kaiiluk'a-kJw-ldn'il on tbe Kai'yuk River. 

 Tukai' -iiakhO-ian' a on tlio Sbag'eluk River. 

 Tui-i/iiyun'o-khotuu'u, Upper Kuskoliwiiii River. 



The name of tins great tribe means Lowlanders, and as tliey occnpy 

 for the most part the hiw tunclri on and about the Yiikon and Kuskokwim 

 Rivers, it is not inappropriate. It comprises a great many settlements, 

 extending over a large extent of country, and having each its local name 

 of course, but presenting hardly any marked change in the dialects spoken 

 and the general characteristics of the people. All these people iutermany, 

 and do not appear to have adopted a totemic system. Their habits vary 

 with their environment, and those who live by fishing diifer somewhat from 

 those who hunt the moose and deer, as might be expected, while the tribes 

 most adjacent to the Ekogmut Innuit have followed their fashion in having 

 more festivals and dances than those to the northward. On the Yukon, the 

 southernmost settlements live principally by tlieir abundant fisheries, and 

 trade dry fish, wooden ware, in making which they are very expert, and 

 strong birch canoes, with the Upper Yukon and Shageluk people. Those 

 on the Kuskokwim live more especially by hunting, and those on the Upper 

 Yukon above the Shageluk about equally by either pursuit according to 

 circumstances. 



These people are most commonly called Inffdlihs or L/r/dleet by the 

 Russians, a coiTuption of the Innuit word meaning " Indians". 



Holmberg, in his summary, was misled by the untruthful and imagi- 

 native Zagoskin, many of Avhose fables were exposed by the parties of the 

 International Telegraph Expedition when explonng in this region. Hence, 

 his undue multiplication of tribes, intended to enhance the discoveries which 

 he made principally, not by traveling, but by questioning the natives. 



I feel quite confident, from my own intercourse with these people, that, 

 until further knowledg-e is attained, no division of this group or tribe is 

 necessary or even desirable. They extend from near KolmakofF Redoubt 

 on the Kviskokwim River to its headwaters, on the Yukon above the mis- 

 sion on the left and above the Anvik River on the right bank, west to 

 the Anvik River and Iktig'olik on the Ulukak River, north to Nulato, and 

 east to the mountains or the Kuskokwim River. 



