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great families, the Shoshone and the Yuma, that have representatives on 

 the coast of Southern California and in the Colorado valley, yet neither 

 group are pottery makers in California, 



That there has been a general move up the valley of the Colorado is 

 indicated by what has taken place in the movements of the Coco-maricopas 

 or Maricopas, a tribe of the Yuma family that has migrated from the Gulf 

 of California some distance up the Gila.* Professor Turner places the 

 Mojaves and the Dieguenos,f with other tribes, in the Yuma family. That 

 the Dieguenos of the coast and the Mojaves of the Colorado possess many 

 similarities, besides that of language, which would go far to prove their 

 close relationship, is shown by many of their customs. 



The Kizh of the San Gabriel, the Kechi of the San Luis Rey, the 

 Netelas of San Juan Capistrano, and the Cahuillos of the region east of the 

 Netelas and approaching the country of the Mojaves, are considered by 

 Professor Turner and others as belonging to the great Shoshone family 

 that extends from southeastern Oregon south to New Mexico and Texas, 

 including the Shoshonees, Utahs, and Comanches. 



The Apaches, Navajos, and their congeners of the Colorado region, are 

 by their language not only of a different family from the tribes above 

 mentioned, but they belong to the wide spread Athapascan family that 

 extends north, east, and south of the Shoshone and Yuma families, on the 

 north even reaching the Pacific, according to Professor Turner,! at the 

 Trinity River in Northern California, while he also states § that the Apache 



* "Coco-maricopas. — This tribe was encountered by Father Kino at the end of the seventeenth 

 century, and is represented to have occupied the country south of the river Gila, nearly 150 miles in 

 length, from its mouth upward. Colonel Emory says: 'We know that the Maricopas have moved gradu- 

 ally from the Gulf of California to their present location in juxtaposition with the Pimas. Carson 

 fonnd them as late as the year 1826 at the mouth of the Gila; and Dr. Anderson, who passed from 

 Sonora to California in 1828, found them, as near as he could reckon from his notes, about the place in 

 which we are now encamped.' Their present position, as already mentioned, is in a village on the 

 northern bank of the Gila, a few miles west of that of the Pimas, in about west longitude 112°." — Turner, 

 in Pacific E. E. Eeports, vol. iii, pp. 101, 102, of Eeport on Indian Tribes, by Whipple, Eubank, and 

 Turner, 1855. 



t This name was given after the establishment of the mission of San Diego .by the Spaniards, 

 though according to the manuscript report by Don Jose Cortez, dated 1799, in the Peter Force Library, 

 and in part translated and printed in the third volume of the Pacific Eailroad Eeports, the tribe was 

 known under the name of Cuneil. " These are the Cuiieil who are on the borders of the port of San 

 Diego and whose towns continue to the outlet of the channel of Santa Barbara," p. 125. — Eeport on 

 Indian Tribes, by Whipple, Eubank, and Turner. 



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