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Eastern Tinneh. 



K'nai-a-kl)0-tana. 

 Ah-tena'. 



Nehannees. 



Abba-to-tenah. 

 Acheto-tinneh. 

 KLun-uui-ah.' 



Carriers. 



" Takulli." 

 Tsilkotinneh. 



Now, I daresay the learned Professor has been mLsinformed, inas- 

 much as Dr. W. H. Dall's list, which he quotes and seems to adopt 

 is incorrect and incomplete. It is incorrect because, among other 

 things, it puts down the Tsilkotinneh (or more correctly Chilh;s(otins) 

 as belonging to the ^Caniers (Tap^elh, not " Takulli ") from whom 

 they are distinct. Moreover, those tribes noted under the title of 

 *' Western Tinneh '"' have no existence but on paper. As for the Ne- 

 hannees, I suppo.se Dr. Dall means the Nahan^s ; but I strongly sus- 

 pect that the seven " Kut-chin " tribes, which he gives as specifically 

 different, are only so many sub-divisions of the .same tribe, all of whom 

 speak the same dialect probably with local idiomatic peculiarities. 

 Indeed, their very name, not to speak of reliable authorities, would 

 lead me to form this opinion. " Kut-chin "' is a verbal suffix which, 

 when in connection with a denominative name is expi-essive not of 

 ethnological variety, but of topographical location. Its appearance at 

 the end of certain words denotes that the aborigines who designate 

 themselves thereby are philologically, and thereby ethnograpbically, so 

 homogeneous as to preclude the pos.sibility of their Vjeing classed as 

 different ti-ibes of the same stock. - 



iThe " toh " pronounced with a peculiar smacking of the tongue. To prevent typojfraphical 

 difBculties I shall avoid as much as possible the giving of aboriginal names in the course of 

 this monograph. I am not acquainted with the system of Indian orthography suggested in a 

 volume of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, and even should I have it ready for refer 

 ence I doubt whether it would prove adequate to the accurate rendering of the multifarious 

 Bounds of the Dene languages. 



'This suffix varies with the different tribes Its equivalents on this (west) side of the Rocky 

 Mountains are tingkwotin in Chilh^otin, ten, and kwoten in Carrier, t-cken» and kwo-tckene in 

 Sekenais. 



