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This is in pretty close agreement with Snyder’s findings for 453 In- 
dians, said to be pure, namely, 91-3 per cent, 7-7 per cent, 1*0 per cent, 
and 0-0 per cent. It is, however, not claimed that all of these 102 
Indians are pure. In fact, of the six Chipewyans at Fond-du-lac who fall 
into group A the interpreter felt certain that five were pure (three being 
closely related to each other), but of the sixth he was uncertain whether 
he was pure or not. Of the five in group B, two were regarded by the 
interpreter as pure and three as mixed (of the three mixed, two were bro- 
thers whose parents both had traces of white blood, and the third may 
have been of mixed origin, for his brother was said to have a heavy mous- 
tache). The one Chipewyan at Chipewyan who falls into group B, though 
looking every inch an Indian, likely has traces of white blood; because his 
children look white; his cephalo-facial index is 92-5 and he is becoming 
bald on the crown of his head (referred to on page 8). Of the lineage 
of the two Chipewyans at Fitzgerald who fall into groups A and B the 
interpreter knew nothing. 
In any case, though the numbers dealt with are small they are suffi- 
cient to indicate that these Indians in Canada have almost the same blood 
group distribution as those in the United States of America. 
Crees are of Algonquian stock; and Chipewyans of Athapascan. This 
difference in stock may account for the difference in the blood grouping. 
For, whereas the Crees belong 100 per cent to group O, the Chipewyans 
are only 80 per cent group 0. As the Chipewyans are probably relatively 
recent arrivals on this continent, their grouping might be expected to be 
akin to that of the inhabitants of eastern Asia, but it certainly does not 
resemble that of the Japanese, Chinese, or Koreans. It is, in fact, definitely 
North American Indian or mixed Indian in type. If it is correct to assume 
that all pure Indians belong entirely or almost entirely to group O, then 
we must regard this Cree band as being of much purer stock than the three 
Chipewyan bands. It still, however, remains to be confirmed that pure 
Cree do belong 100 per cent to group 0, for in the circumstances one is 
hardly justified in placing much reliance on a percentage based on a total 
of 33, especially when 4 of these 33 are said to have small amounts of white 
blood in their veins. 
The blood grouping of those who have been selected from the different 
localities, as being on the evidence of the various interpreters, on the one 
hand pure Chipewyan Indians, and on the other Chipewyan-white breeds, 
is set out in table V. 
Table V 
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Nos. 
O 
A 
B 
AB 
Chipewyans 
AsHiimftdly pure 
38 
76-3% 
85 0% 
10-5% 
50% 
13-2% 
100% 
0 0% 
00% 
White breeds . 
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From this it may be supposed that the interpreters, reliable and 
locally experienced as they were, could not discriminate between pure 
Indians and those with traces of white blood. For those they selected as 
pure are, on this basis, even less pure than the Fond-du-lac band; in fact, 
less pure even than the very breeds. 
