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(5) Tribes of the Cordillera. The interior Salishan-speaking 
peoples of the Fraser river; the Kootenay; the Chilcotin of the Chilko 
River district; the Carriers along the line of the transcontinental 
railway running to Prince Rupert; the extinct Tsetsaut tribe at the 
head of Portland canal; the Tahltan on the Stikine river; and the 
Tagish of Marsh and Tagish lakes. 
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A Kwakiiitl woman of Vancouver island, reiuesentatiye 
of the Jmliaiis of the I’acific coast. Tight ligatures in 
infancy have unnaturally elongated her head, (Photo 
J>!/ a. M. Dinruoii,) 
(6) Tribes of the Mackenzie and Yukon River Basins. The 
Sekani at the head of the Peace river; the Beaver lower down its 
course; the Chipewyan who roamed between Hudson bay, Athabaska 
river, and Great Slave lake;^ the Yellowknives northeast of Great 
Slave lake; the Dogribs between Great Slave and Great Bear lakes; 
the Slaves on the Mackenzie river from Great Slave lake almost to 
1- The Caribou-Eaters seem to have been a subdivision of the Cltipewyan, not distinct enough to 
rank as a separate tribe. See Appeialix .\. 
