ox THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 



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G. GiBBS, Willopali, Fchrnary 185G. 



From an Indian at S. G. Fords. 



' Of the Willopah tribe formerly inhabiting that river and the liead waters of the 

 ' Cliihalis, there are, I believe, but two families left ; from a man belonging to them 

 ' I obtained the following : — 



'He called his people O'whil-lapsh, the termination of which I should, however, 

 'judge to be of Chibalis origin. Their territory he called Whilap-a-hai-j-ou. The 

 * vocabulary was taken down in some haste, and, besides being incomplete, is not 

 'always altogether correct. Enough,however,isgiven to afford evidence of its character.' 



' Mr. Anderson says : "The Kwal-whee-o-qua seem, from what I can learn, to have 

 '"occiTpied the Willopah River and its tributaries towards the head of the Chihalis, 

 ' "and to have interlocked with the tribe who inhabited the country bordering on the 

 ' " Elokamin River. Their habits of life seem to have been very similarto those of the 

 ' " Klat.skanai — the chase and an interior life for part of the year — resorting to the main 

 ' " rivers at certain periods to secure a supplj' of salmon."' 



The Tatltan vocabulary is reprinted from Dr. G. M. Dawson's report on that 

 tribe ('Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Canado,' 1887, p. 191, B.ff.). The 

 words in parenthesis in the Ts'Ets'il'ut vocabulary were obtained from Timothj-, and 

 differed from those obtained from Levi. The latter said in explanation that 

 Timothy's father had come from Laq'uyi'jj (Naqkyina), and that for this reason 

 Timoth}'- spoke slightly differently. The two vocabularies show clearly that Tatltan 

 and Ts'Ets'a'ut are closely affiliated, but that certain regular changes of sounds occur, 

 particularly ts in Tatltan becomes / in Ts'Ets'a'ut, and i is often replaced by tq or tr. 

 Other changes are not so certain, and may be based on differences in perception and 

 method of recording. It would seem that the TkulHiyogoa'ikc resembles the 

 northern dialects more than those of the interior of British Columbia, but I am not 

 sufficiently familiar with the latter to satisfactorily judge on this point. In both the 

 Tatltan and TkulHiyogoa'ikc vocabularies I have retained the original spelling. 



