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It will be seen from the above that the term Nehaunee covers a large 

 number of bands, some of which are probably independent tribes, and the 

 only thing -which can be said to be known about them is that they all belong 

 to the Tinneh stock. 



To the westward of the Nehaunees and Crows are the following two 

 tribes, which complete the list of Alaskan Tinneh. 



AH-TENA'. 



= Ah-tena, Dall 1. c, their own tribal designation. 



= Atnacr, Wrange)!. 



=z Atakhtane, Erui.in. 



= Ketschei-naey {\ce-Dieu) of the Russian trailers, _/i(ie Wrangell. 



= Mied»off8lcoi, Worman in Tililinicnief. 



= Atnaxlhijnve, Piuart, Rev. Pbil. et EtUn , Les Atnahs. 



= Atnas, Luilewig, in Triibner Bib. Glott., eil. l,p. 14, 211. 



= Tillowknife or Hcliaunee Indians, Ross, MSS. map. 



Not Alnah, Ludewig, Flatlieads of the Frazer River. 



Not Telloivknires of the Coppermine River, H. B. Terr. 



These Indians, known principally by report, occupy the basin of the 

 Atna or Coj^per River, and reach to the sea at its mouth, having pushed 

 themselves between the Ugalakmiit Innuit and their relations of Chugach 

 Bay. I was fortunate enough to be present in 1874 at their annual trade 

 at Port Etches, to determine definitely their own name for themselves,* 

 and to recognize in their speech many of the Tinneh words with which I 

 had become familiar on the Ynkon. I also obtained from them a piece, 

 weighing- about five pounds, of the celebrated native coj^per, found in the bed 

 of the river on which they live. They resembled strongly the Koyukuns 

 in appearance, and wore the original jiointed coats trimmed with beads, 

 such as I had seen on the persons of the Tcnan-lddch'm. Their faces were 

 oval and of pleasing and intelligent expression. On a visit to the vessel in 

 my charge, they showed unnsual tact and discretion in their behavior, which 

 could hardly have been improved, though she was to them an object of the 

 greatest curiosity, the only sea-going vessel they had ever seen. 



* Father Petitot, by a curious misreading of my text \n Alaska and its Itt sources, hsxa arrived at 

 tbo conclusion that I have confounded the Copper or Atna River with the Coppermine River of Hearno 

 and Franklin, because (ou Ross's authority) I stated that the Ah-tena were sometimes called Yellow- 

 kuifo or Nehaunee ludiaus by the English, while the Ytllowkuives that be knows are residents of tho 

 Coppermine River. It would appear, apart from bis misconception, that be has forgotten th.at the trad- 

 ers frequently apply the same name to widely different tribes, and that in quoting them, then as now, I 

 could not vouch for the proper application of any names except those I have personally verified. 



