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INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN
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|style="width: 10em"|Tribe. |style="width: 10em"|Stock. |style="width: 20em"|Situation, Population, &c. |style="width: 10em"|Degree of
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|valign="top"|Abnaki.
|valign="top"|Algonkian.
|valign="top"|At Becancour, Quebec, 27; at St François du Lac and Pierreville, 330. Decreasing.
|valign="top"|Probably no pure blood left.
|valign="top"|As civilized as the neighbouring whites. All Catholics.
|valign="top"|Maurault, Hist. des Abenaquis (Quebec, 1866); Jack, Trans. Canad. Inst., 1892–1893.
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|valign="top"|Acnomawi (Pit river Indians).
|valign="top"|Shastan.
|valign="top"|N.E. California. About 1100 in the Pit river region; also 50 or 60 on the Klamath Reservation, Oregon.
|valign="top"|Little.
|valign="top"|Progress very slow; influence of schools felt. Klamath Achomawi under Methodist influence.
|valign="top"|Powers, Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol., vol. iii., 1877; various writings of Dr R. B. Dixon, American Anthropologist, 1905–1908, &c.
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|valign="top"|Aleuts.
|valign="top"|Eskimoan.
|valign="top"|Aleutian Islands and part of Alaska. About 1600. Decreasing.
|valign="top"|About 50% are mixed bloods.
|valign="top"|“Decaying.” Once converted to Greek Orthodox church. Methodist mission at Unalaska.
|valign="top"|Works (in Russian) of Veniaminov, 1840–1848; Golder, Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore, 1905–1907; Chamberlain, Dict. Relig. and Ethics (Hastings, vol. i., 1908).
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|valign="top"|Amalecttes (Maliseets).
|valign="top"|Algonkian.
|valign="top"|106 at Viger (Cacouna, Quebec); 702 in various parts of W. New Brunswick. Apparently increasing.
|valign="top"|Probably few pure bloods.
|valign="top"|Fairly good. At Viger industrially unsettled. Catholics.
|valign="top"|Writings of S. T. Rand; Chamberlain (M.), Maliseet Vocabuilary (Cambridge, 1899).
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|valign="top"|Apache.
|valign="top"|Athabaskan.
|valign="top"|In Arizona, 4879; New Mexico, 1244; Oklahoma, 453. Not rapidly decreasing as formerly thought.
|valign="top"|Considerable Spanish blood due to captives, &c.
|valign="top"|Marked improvement here and there. Catholic and Lutheran missions.
|valign="top"|Cremony, Life among the Apaches (1868); Bourke, 9th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1887–1888, and Journ. Amer. Folk-Lore, 1890; Hrdlička, American Anthropologist, 1905.
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|valign="top"|Arapaho.
|valign="top"|Algonkian.
|valign="top"|358 at Ft. Belknap Reservation, Montana; 873 at Wind river Reservation, Wyoming; 885 in Oklahoma. Holding their own.
|valign="top"|Some Spanish (Mexican) blood in places.
|valign="top"|Oklahoma Arapaho American citizens; progress elsewhere. Mennonite missions chiefly; also Dutch Reformed.
|valign="top"|Writings of Kroeber and Dorsey, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1900–1907, and Publ. Field Columb. Mus., 1903; Scott, Amer. Anthrop., 1907.
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|valign="top"|Assiniboin.
|valign="top"|Siouan.
|valign="top"|In Montana, 1248; Alberta, 971; Saskatchewan, 420.
|valign="top"|Some little.
|valign="top"|In Canada “steady advance,” elsewhere good. Alberta Assiniboins are Methodists; in Montana Catholic and Presbyterian missions on reservations.
|valign="top"|Maclean, Canadian Savage Folk (Toronto, 1890); McGee, 15th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1893–1894.
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|valign="top"|Babines.
|valign="top"|Athabaskan.
|valign="top"|530 on Babine Lake, Bulkley river, &c., in central British Columbia.
|valign="top"|Little, if any.
|valign="top"|Conservative. Little progress. Reached by Catholic mission of Stuart Lake, B.C.
|valign="top"|Morice, Anthropos, 1906–1007, and Ann. Arch. Rep. Ontario, 1905, and other writings.
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|valign="top"|Bannock.
|valign="top"|Shoshonian.
|valign="top"|About 500 at Ft. Hall, and 78 at Lemhi Agency, Idaho.
|valign="top"|Little.
|valign="top"|Considerable improvement morally and industrially.
|valign="top"|Hoffman, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., 1886; Mooney, 14th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1892–1893; Lowie, Anthrop. Pap. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1909.
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|valign="top"|Beaver.
|valign="top"|Athabaskan.
|valign="top"|About 700 on Peace river, a western affluent of Lake Athabaska.
|valign="top"|Very little.
|valign="top"|Rather stationary.
|valign="top"|See Babines.
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|valign="top"|Bilqula (Bellacoola).
|valign="top"|Salishan.
|valign="top"|287 on Dean Inlet, Bentinck Arm, Bellacoola river, &c., coast of central British Columbia. Decreasing.
|valign="top"|Little.
|valign="top"|Not very encouraging. Mission influence not yet strongly felt.
|valign="top"|Boas, Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1891, and Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1898.
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|valign="top"|Blackfeet (Siksika).
|valign="top"|Algonkian.
|valign="top"|About 824 in Alberta, Canada. Decreasing.
|valign="top"|Little.
|valign="top"|Steadily improving morally and financially. Anglicans, 237; Catholics, 260; pagans, 327.
|valign="top"|Maclean, Canadian Savage Folk (Toronto, 1890), and other writings; Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge-Tales (N.Y., 1903), and other writings; Wissler, Ann. Arch. Rep. Ontario, 1905; Schultz, My Life as an Indian (N.Y., 1907); Wissler, Anthrop. Pap. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1908.
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|valign="top"|Bloods.
|valign="top"|Algonkian.
|valign="top"|1168 near Ft. Macleod, Alberta. Probably decreasing somewhat.
|valign="top"|Little.
|valign="top"|All able-bodied Indians will soon be self-supporting. Presbyterians, 150; Catholics, 150; the rest pagan.
|valign="top"|See Blackfeet.
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|valign="top"|Caddo.
|valign="top"|Caddoan.
|valign="top"|550 in Oklahoma. Increasing slightly.
|valign="top"|Considerable French blood.
|valign="top"|Citizens of United States. Catholic, Methodist and Presbyterian missions.
|valign="top"|Mooney, 14th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1892–1893; writings of Fletcher, Dorsey, &c.
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|valign="top"|Cariboo-Eaters.
|valign="top"|Athabaskan.
|valign="top"|1700 in the region E. of Lake Athabaska, N.W. Canada.
|valign="top"|Little, if any.
|valign="top"|Little progress.
|valign="top"|See Babines.
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|valign="top"|Carriers.
|valign="top"|Athabaskan.
|valign="top"|970 between Tatla Lake and Ft. Alexandria, central British Columbia.
|valign="top"|Little.
|valign="top"|Semi-sedentary and naturally progressive as Indians; improvements beginning to be marked. Under influence of Catholic mission at Stuart Lake, B.C.
|valign="top"|Morice, Proc. Canad. Inst., 1889, Trans. Canad. Inst., 1894, Hist. of Northern Inter. of British Columbia (Toronto, 1904), and other writings. See Babines.
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|valign="top"|Catawba.
|valign="top"|Siouan.
|valign="top"|About 100 on the Catawba river, York county, South Carolina. Decreasing.
|valign="top"|Much mixed with white blood.
|valign="top"|Slowly adopting white man's ways. Chiefly farmers.
|valign="top"|Mooney, Siouan Tribes of the East (Washington, 1894); Gatschet, American Anthropologist, 1900; Harrington, ibid., 1908.
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|valign="top"|Cayuga.
|valign="top"|Iroquoian.
|valign="top"|179 on the Iroquois Reservations in New York State; 1044 with the Six Nations in Ontario; also some with the Seneca in Oklahoma and with Oneida in Wisconsin.
|valign="top"|Some English admixture.
|valign="top"|Canadian Cayuga steadily improving; they are “pagan.”
|valign="top"|See Six Nations.
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|valign="top"|Cayuse. |valign="top"|Wailatpuan. |valign="top"|405 on Umatilla Reservation, Oregon |valign="top"|About 14 are of mixed blood, chiefly French. |valign="top"|Conditions improving. Good work of Catholic and Presbyterian missions. |valign="top"|Mowry, Marcus Whitman (1901); Lewis, Mem. Amer. Anthrop. Assoc., 1906.
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|valign="top"|Chehalis.
|valign="top"|Salishan.
|valign="top"|182 on Puyallup Reservation, Washington. Perhaps increasing slightly.
|valign="top"|No data.
|valign="top"|Gradually improving and generally prosperous. Congregational mission.
|valign="top"|Gibbs, Contrib. N. Amer. Ethnol., vol. iii., 1877; Eells, Hist. of Ind. Missions on the Pacific Coast (N.Y., 1882), and other writings.
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|valign="top"|Chemehuevi.
|valign="top"|Shoshonian.
|valign="top"|About 300 on the Colorado Reservation; a few elsewhere in Arizona and California.
|valign="top"|No data.
|valign="top"|Some improvement. Missions of the Presbyterians and of the Church of the Nazarene.
|valign="top"|See Ute.
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|valign="top"|Cherokee. |valign="top"|Iroquoian. |valign="top"|About 28,000, of which 1489 are in North Carolina and the rest in Oklahoma. |valign="top"|Not more than 14 are of approximately pure blood. |valign="top"|Oklahoma Cherokee citizens of the United States, and making excellent progress. Various religious faiths. |valign="top"|Royce, 5th Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol., 1883–1884; Mooney, 7th Rep., 1885–1886, and especially 19th Rep., 1897–1898.
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