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II. 
Indian Tribes of Alaska. 
For some years after the cession of Alaska to the LUnited States, 
there was trouble among the Indian tribes, and a man-of-war 
was stationed in Sitka Harbor. There has been no recent dis¬ 
turbance. The natives of Alaska, according to Mr. Petroff, are 
divided into four principal families: The Eskimo or Innuit, the 
Aleut ( Oonagan), the Thlinket, and the Athabaskan (or Tinneh). 
There are numerous subdivisions. The Eskimos occupy almost 
the whole coast line of Alaska west of the one hundred and forty- 
fifth meridian. The Aleuts inhabit parts of Aliaska Peninsula, 
the Shumagin Islands, and the Aleutian chain. The Athabaskans 
include a large number of tribes generally classed as “North 
American Indians,” extending from the mouth of the Mackenzie 
River in the north to the borders of Mexico in the south. The 
northern tribes extend west nearly to Bering Sea, touching the 
coast only in the northern part of Cook Inlet. At every other 
point they are separated from the ocean by a belt of Eskimo. 
The Thlinket inhabit the coast and islands from the intersection 
of the one hundred and forty-first meridian to the southern bound¬ 
ary of Alaska. Detailed descriptions of the tribes are given in 
Petroff’s Population, Industries, and Resources of Alaska; by 
Dali, in “Alaska and its Resources,” and by Lieutenant Schwatka 
(Military Reconnoissance in Alaska). 
The report of Governor Knapp for 1892 says: The Athabas¬ 
cans and Eskimos have come less under the influences of contact 
with white people than the other tribes, and therefore retain more 
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