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TRIBES] {| rules=cols border="1" |style="width: 10em"|Tribe. |style="width: 10em"|Stock. |style="width: 20em"|Situation, Population, &c. |style="width: 10em"|Degree of Intermixture. |style="width: 20em"|Condition, Progress, &c. |style="width: 20em"|Authorities. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| (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. |valign="top"| |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). |valign="top"| (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). |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| (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. |valign="top"| (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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |valign="top"|Wailatpuan. |valign="top"|405 on Umatilla Reservation, Oregon |valign="top"|About 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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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. |valign="top"| |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 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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