NO. 7 



ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF AMERICA — MOONEY 



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in the interior. Between 1855 and i860 scarlet fever also wasted the 

 Yukon tribes, entirely wiping out several small bands. In 1843-4 the 

 Aleut were again visited by smallpox and about 1900 by a destructive 

 epidemic of grip, so that they numbeir now only about 2,000, nearly 

 one-half of whom are mixt-bloods. 



The latest Alaskan census of tribes is that of 1890, which takes 

 separate account also of mixt-bloods. The census of 1900 gives only 

 the total by districts, without distinction of tribes, and there are no 

 official figures of later date.' In some districts there appears to be a 

 considerable increase of late years, owing to improved living condi- 

 tions, but a large part of this increase is of the mixt-blood element. 

 The original population of at least 72,000. and possibly much more, 

 is now reduced to about 28,000, or about 40 per cent. 



Eskimo 



Arctic Coast to Norton Sound 



Kangmaligmiut, etc 



Nuwukmiut , 



Utkeagvik 



Sidaru or Sezarok 



Utuka and Kukpaurungmiut , 



Tigeramiut or Tikera 



Nunatogmiut j 8,000 



Kuangmiut (= Kowagmut and Selawigmut of Dall ) 



Mahlemiut • 



Kingegan or Kingigumiut (incl. Little Diomede 



Island = part Okeeogmiut 90 in all) 



Kaviagmut 



Umudjek (St. Lawrence Island; Kikhtogamut of 



Dall) 



Ukivokmiut ( King Island ; part of Okeogmut of 

 Dall) 



Norton Sound to Bristol Bay 



Unaligmiut 1 



Chnagmiut ! 



Kwikhpagmiut or Ikogmiut (Ekogmut of Dall).... 



Alagemiut, incl. Kaialigmiut j 



Nunivagmiut ( Nunivak Island, etc. ) 1 17,000 



Kuskwogmiut j 



Togiagmiut ' 



Nushagagmiut or Tahlekukmiut I 



Kiatagmiut j 



Amount carried forward 25,000 



490 

 165 

 230 



70 

 130 

 350 



60 

 no 

 720 



730 

 490 

 315 



240 



140 

 720 



210 



2,620 



810 



4,000 



230 



210 

 250 



13,290 



'The 1910 census gave 12,636 Eskimo, 1,451 Aleut. 3,916 Athapascans, and 

 4,426 Tlingit, but the stock of 1,640 individuals was not reported. — J. R. S. 



