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at the mouth of the river, their Cree enemies, and the European 
traders, mig:ht learn the name of the tribe but assign it a wrong 
location. From the letters of Father Marest (1694) and La Potherie 
(1753) it is clear that the early fur-tr'aders in Hudson bay often 
applied the name Dogrib (or the equivalent native terms there 
rendered Alifnouspigut and Attimospigvaies) to any Athapaskan- 
si)eakiug ])eople west and northwest of the Cree {Documents relating 
to the Early History of Hudson Bay, pages 128 and 265). 
Xahaui. The term Xahani (“ people over there far away has 
been applied to a variety of tribes, both by Phiropeaii writers and by 
the Indians themselves. To the modern Carrier of British Columbia 
it signifies a half-mythical people far to the northward. To the Sekani 
at the headwaters of the Peace river it meant, in the early nineteenth 
century, the Kaska Indians of the upper Liard river (First Journal of 
Simon Fraser, Tuesday, hlay 6. Copy in Library of Geological Sur- 
vey, Ottawa, of manuscript Series C. No. 16, Bancroft Collection 
Pacific Coast manuscrii)ts, University of California, Berkeley) ; to the 
Sekani of the present day it means the Tahltan. The Kaska. apply 
the name indifferently to the Tahltan anrl to the Indians of the Pelly 
Piver basin, whereas to the Tahltan themselves it signifies one or more 
Athapaskan tribes somewhere to the north. The Slave Indians of 
the lower Liarrl river at the lieginning of the nineteenth century 
knew as Nahani the Indians farther up the river, that is to say, the 
Kaska (Keith in Masson, series ii, page 68); and from Wentzel we 
have the statement that “This Mountain (the Rocky mountains from 
a little west of Norman to Peace river) is inhabited by several tribes 
of Savages, namely Nahanies, Dahoteena, and Nonbahoteenais, be- 
sides many others who are unacquainted with white people’’ 
(Wentzel in IMasson, series i. jiage 78). The Indians living to-day 
on Great Slave and Great Bear lakes still fear the Nakani, a semi- 
mythical tribe, that haunts the entire country side, kills the hunters, 
and steals their women. The Kutchin or I.oucheux Indians of Fort 
Yukon gave “ Naheiy ” as the name of mountain Indians living at 
the head of Keele river (Murray, A.H.: “Journal of the Yukon, 
1847-48,” edited by L. J. Burpee; Publications of the Canadian 
.Archives, No. 4, p. 79, Ottawa, 1910), the same people, apparently, 
as WentzeFs Dahoteena, the Dahadinne of Sir John Richardson 
