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the remaining 150 Indians are migratory, receiving tbeir share of the 

 annuities paid by the United States Government, at its agency on the 

 Jocko River, in the Flathead Reservation, Montana Territory, and claim- 

 ing to be British Indians when they wander north of the boundary line.' 

 About 300 of the British ladians inhabit the valley of the Upper 

 Kootenay and Columbia, the remaining 150 belonging to the Lower 

 Kootenay. The Lower Kootenays, according to Mr. Farwell, whose in- 

 formation was derived from Mr. D. McLaughlin, ' number 157, divided 

 as follows : 35 men, 34 married women, 39 boys, 32 girls, 4 widows, with 

 boys and 3 girls between them, and 4 widows without encumbrances.' 



In 1887 Mr. Michael Philipps, the Indian Agent amongst the Cana- 

 dian Kootenays, estimated their number as follows : — 



Columbia Lakes 65 



Lower Kootenay 160 



St. Mary's 236 



Tobacco Plains . 30 



Total . . . .490 



The report of the Indian Agent for June 30 last (1891) ' states the 

 numbers of ' the Kootenay Indians in British Columbia ' to be as 



follows : — 



Columbia Lakes 106 



Kinbaskets 41 



Flatbow 159 



St. Mary's 312 



Tobacco Plains 78 



Total . . . .696 



Ethnic Names. 



The Kootenays call the surrounding tribes with whom they have 

 come into contact as follows : — 



(a) Blackfeet. Santla or Saha'ntla (bad Indians). In the past the 

 Kootenays had many wars with the Blackfeet, but joined them often in 

 their buffalo hunts on the plains to the east. The Blackfoot country is 

 called Tla'watinak (i.e., 'over the mountains'). The Blackfeet often 

 •visit the Kootenays now, and are hospitably received. Such a visit 

 •occurred in the summer of 1891. 



(b) Cree. Gu'tskia'we (liars). A few Crees occasionally visit the 

 Kootenays, chiefly in company with the Blackfeet. In the old days of 

 the Hudson's Bay Company these two peoples came more into contact. 



(c) Stonies. These Indians have a very bad reputation with the 

 Kootenays, and are named Tlu'tlama'Eka (cut-throats). Also Gutlu'puk. 



(d) Sioux. Ka'tsk-agi'tlsak (charcoal legs). 



(e) Shushwap. Tlitka'tuwu'mtla'Et (no shirts). This name was 

 given because, when the Kootenays met. the Shushwaps first, the latter 

 bad no buckskin shirts (aqka'tuwu'mtla'Et). 



(/) Okanagan. O'kina'k-gn. Some of these occasionally visit the 

 Kootenays. About ten years ago several came to A'qk'am. They are 

 also known in Kootenay as KohEwuIk'he. 



' This information I owe to the courtesy of Mr. Vankoughnet, the Deputy Super- 

 intendent of Indian Affairs, Ottawa. 



