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the name and the memory of these dreaded Ennas (strangers, 

 enemies), including Dead Men's Isle, which keeps alive to this 

 day the recollection of the defeat of the Katcho-Ottine, subsequently 

 called Slaves. From that time, this portion of the Tinney family 

 never ventured south, but remained in the cold lands and swampy 

 forests of the north, where they became split up and settled under 

 the names of Do^-ribs, Hareskins, Highlanders, Slaves, &c. 

 Their different tribal dialects vary but slightly inter se, differing 

 much more widely from the Chipewyan. 



The Kilistino or Crees, established on Lake Athabasca and its 

 tributaries and discharges, found themselves exposed to the attacks 

 of the Chipewyan Tinney s arriving from the west by the Peace 

 River (called Amisko-Sipi or Beaver River by the Crees), thus prov- 

 ing that the Tinney family, or at least its northern tribes, are of later 

 origin on the American continent than the Killini or Hillini Lleni. 

 But, being as brave as, if not braver than, the invaders, they 

 offered such a resistance that prisoners and slaves were made on 

 both sides. Meanwhile the English appeared in Hudson's Bay 

 at the mouth of the Missi-Nipi (called English River from them), 

 and founded a factory there named Churchill, after the then prime 

 minister of England. This became the medium of commerce 

 between the coast Eskimo, the Savanois, and the Crees of the 

 interior. 



Before the Hudson's Bay Company sent Hearne to explore the 

 interior, a Chipewyan woman named Tha-narelther (Falling Sable) 

 was carried off by a Savanois war-party, and taken in captivity 

 to the shore-region of Hudson's Bay. She saw with astonishment 

 in the tents of her captors domestic utensils and arms entirely 

 new to her, and as she at first believed them to be of native 

 manufacture she admired the intellectual superiority of the 

 Killini, and determined to remain with a people so superior to 

 herself in intelligence and cleverness. But she did not live among 

 them long before detecting from their ways and ceaseless wander- 

 ings that they obtained these things from strangers, in exchange 

 for peltry and provisions. This traffic puzzled the captive, but, 

 as she imagined that the original possessors of the riches bestowed 

 upon the Savanois must be their relations or allies, she never 

 thought of taking refuge with them and begging their protection. 



